Do neo-cons accuse congress of lying when stating Valerie Plame was a COVERT CIA agent?

Question

source: House of Representatives

"Hearing Examines Exposure of Covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Identity"

See text and video of hearing below:

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205&Issue=Disclosure+of+CIA+Agent+Identity

Who's the traitor now Mr. Cheney?

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OR continue supporting a traitor to the United States of America, Dick Cheney.

The choice is everyone's to make.
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once again:

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Or does truth scare some people that much? Who loves a traitor?

Answer 1

I really resent when rightists quibble about whether Plame was covert at the moment or not. It shouldn't matter. She now has no option of being covert in the future. Her training and skills are lost to us. If a Democratic Administration had blown the cover of any agent, they would be screaming treason.

Answer 2

Semantics. Plame was categorized by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act as an "operative" not a "covert agent". A covert agent must satisfy two criteria: 1) the agent must currently or within the past five years served outside of the US and 2) the intelligence agency (CIA) must have taken steps to actively preserve the agent's covert status.

Almost exactly five years after her last overseas assignment, parties within The White House revealed her identity and status as a CIA operative to the press. While The White House argues that the second criteria had also not been met, Plame was still working for a CIA front and such activity "could" be construed as taking a step to preserve the agent's status.

So, instead of just making a whistleblower look bad, The White House blew the cover of several covert agents because their place of employment (the CIA front company) was also exposed, thereby endangering several lives and possibly derailing the intelligence gathering efforts of the CIA, including the tracking of WMD. Not very smart. In fact, almost criminal. Almost.

Answer 3

There may be several levels of status at the CIA; I don't know. Clearly no one violated the law in revealing her name or identity (job). Otherwise, why was there no prosecution - of Richard Armitage, Scooter Libby, or anyone else - for revealing her name?

If you are this concerned about leaking national security information, then I suggest you investigate what the New York Times has done to reveal and damage several administration programs. No, they have not been prosecuted either. I wish they would be investigated, though.

You might also direct your indignation at Mr. Wilson himself, for writing such a mendacious editorial and leading to all those questions, like "who is this clown and how on Earth did he get any position of responsibility?" The Senate panel refuted many of his claims in that editorial, and in his response letter to them he said he NEVER claimed to debunk the assertion that Saddam had sought uranium in Niger.

Look up Joe Wilson's response letter to the Senate committee.

If people are accusing Cheney of treason, then we are clearly living in Bizarro World.

I must disagree with you, strongly.

Answer 4

There was a terrific article about the use of reporters and the rumor mill by the White House to promote various agenda's in the NYT magazine on Sunday.

Answer 5

If you're going to quote the Bat-Faced Boy, Waxman, at least get it right. I do not see the word COVERT there anywhere. If she was a COVERT agent, why did that idiot husband of hers continually introduce her as "My secret Agent Wife" at cocktail parties, long before the incident where he lied about his so-called findings in Niger?

Answer 6

I love how all the "experts" claim she wasn't covert. According to congress and the information they received from the CIA, she WAS covert. I love it - disregard the facts that don't fit what YOU want to beleive. No wonder they elected the dip**** they did.

Answer 7

Yes. I accuse the Liberals in Congress as the LIEberals they are. Plame was on the cover of a magazine, how is that covert?

Screw her and her husband. They represent the worst of our country.

Answer 8

Valerie Plame was NOT a covert CIA agent...

Answer 9

She wasn't covert.

She wasn't even in the field.

Nor did Cheney or anyone else mention her name!

All they said was that the guy who was parading around saying he'd found nothing in Africa and that he was the one they should listen to because he was the one the CIA sent to Africa was a fraud, that the only reason he was sent to Africa is because his wife, a high-ranking desk jockey within the CIA, had him sent there.

And that was a true statement.

Answer 10

If that is the case, her husband would be guilty, as he outed her as a CIA agent several times prior at political dinners and conventions.


So, is that the case?