We still don't know who leaked Plame's identity; that's what this investigation was supposed to be about.
In order to violate the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, one must expose the identity of a "covert agent." To be considered a covert agent, one must be "serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States." § 426(4)(a)(ii). (See [[148]] and [[149]] for the definition of covert agent.) Whether Valerie Plame traveled outside the US is not known (as of 1 August 2005).
In his book The Politics of Truth, Joe Wilson wrote that he and Plame, his then future wife, both returned from overseas assignments in June 1997. Wilson's book indicates neither he nor Plame was again stationed overseas. Novak's article was published more than 6 years later. [150] Neither Wilson nor Plame will say whether she was stationed overseas since 1997, but Wilson responded to a reporter's question that "the CIA obviously believes there was reason to believe a crime had been committed" because it referred the case to the Justice Department.[151], implying that she may have traveled overseas undercover. On July 14, 2004 Joe Wilson was on the Wolf Blitzer Show and stated "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."
In order for one to be protected by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, it must be proven that the U.S. government "is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent’s intelligence relationship to the United States."
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