"Poor Scooter" is going to jail, but does anyone care that Valerie Plame's courageous career was ruined?

Question

She was "classified" at the time of the "outing" and had been covert with NOC status for many of her 20 years with the CIA. Many of her prior contacts were put at risk, both their lives and careers, and, as such, the security of America was damaged. Yet I hear a lot of Americans whining that "technically, no law was broken" and Libby should never have been tried. Seems to me there are several people in the administration who were grossly negligent at best and, at worst, commited treason.

Answer 1

She was no longer an undercover/ covert agent for the CIA after the birth of her children. She drove to work at CIA HQ several times a week so it was not a big secret where she worked and who for. That said, Scooter should not have said anything. He will be pardoned by Bush. I really think this was a non issue. Is this the BEST the left wingers can come up with?

Answer 2

Wow, have you got the facts wrong. Plame's career was hardly ruined. She's got two book deals and a movie in the works.

She was not classified when Novak used her name in his column. If she had been, Richard Armitage (the source of the leak) would've been on trial ages ago, especially since Fitzgerald knew he was the source shortly after launching the investigation.

None of her contacts were put at risk, and American national security was never compromised. If you're worried about our national security being compromised, you should focus your attention on Sandy Berger.

As for the rest, it's been proven that Joe Wilson was the one lying in his opinion piece:

On his trip to Niger, Wilson found no evidence that contradicted the famous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, contrary to his New York Times op-ed claim.

Plame, his wife, who worked for the CIA, did recommend him for the Niger junket, contrary to Wilson's denials.

Plame was not a covert agent under the definition of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, contrary to Wilson's insinuations, which many of his backers, including in the press, presented as fact.

No one from the White House "leaked" Plame's identity as a CIA functionary to Robert Novak, who received the information from Richard Armitage at the State Department.

And if anyone's career has been ruined, it's Libby's.

Answer 3

that's astonishing that the guy who wrote the regulation masking the "time out of covert operatives" pronounced that Ms. Plame's responsibilities on the CIA did not fall under the status of "covert". 2d, if she became a covert operative, why wasn't Armatige prosecuted. And 0.33, why did Fitzgerald proceed the analyze while he KNEW withing the 1st month of the analyze that it became Armatige that had leaked the concepts to Novak and Woodward. Novak reported that he had instructed Fitzgerald on the beginning up of the analyze that it became Armatige that had leaked him the concepts. BTW, once you're so in touch approximately government leaks, the place is your outrage approximately each and all of the secret government operations in the time of the conflict against terrorists? the place is your outrage on the subject of the leaks on how we've been collecting intelligence on terrorists via taping THEIR telephone conversations? Your indignation approximately this seems slightly hollow.

Answer 4

Amen ! You said a mouthful there. Valerie was ousted only because they wanted to get back at her husband. Oh, what a tangled weave. At present, she is waiting for permission from the CIA to write her book. They probabaly won't allow it, but if they do, I'll certainly read it. A lot of people got the royal shaft with this deal, not just Plame. You don't mess with Big Brother... that's apparent in how quickly a person can be destroyed.

Answer 5

He won't go to jail, he'll be pardoned.

By the way, the security of America was just fine, think you mean the United Statesian security.

You see, there is no such a thing as ‘American’ nationality, America is not a nation America is a continent with many nations in it. The US never named itself the name of the United States is a designation it comes from the end of the Declaration of Independence, "WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled...". The preamble to the U.S. Constitution reiterated the phrase: "We the People of the United States..." (The authors of these two documents probably used the phrase "united states" in place of a list of colonies/states because they remained uncertain at the time of drafting which colonies/states would sign off on the sentiments therein.) The geographic term "America" specifies the states' home on the American continent.

It is therefor incorrect to refer to US citizens as Americans with the intent of denoting citizenship, or the United States as America with the intent of denoting a nation. Americans have a term for US citizens, we are called United Statesians by the rest of Americans, to say American with the intent of denoting citizenship or America when we mean the United States reflects poorly on our attitude towards the 70% of Americans that are not United Statesians.

Also, although some people would like to believe that America is not one but two continents, North America and South America. If you think about it though, the term U.S. of A. is a glaring example that this line of thought is incorrect, if America was two continents instead of one, shouldn’t it be U.S. of N.A. (North America)? We say Columbus discovered..... ? AMERICA, not South America or North America.

Lastly, while everybody in America from Nome to Patagonia, from Easter Island to Greenland is an American, not every United Statesian is an American. For instance, Hawaiians are as United Statesians as they come, but they ARE NOT Americans, they are Pacific Islanders.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

I would suggest you may be a bit misinformed. Her CIA career was very limited and Libby was NOT the person that gave up her identity. It was a State Department official. Libby was found guilty of not recollecting specifics in conversation and was NEVER on trial for providing classified material.

Answer 7

Was the trial about her losing her job? No. It was about perjury and treason. That may be why she's not the focus right now.

Answer 8

What distorted information!!!!
Plume hadn't been covert for 5 years.
She & her husband couldn't wait to pose for pictures and go to Hollywood.
They wanted to be celebrities.

Answer 9

Couldn't care less, she was never a "real" covert agent.

Answer 10

technically obstruction of justice is against the law.
yes I CARE