During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.
This was classified information.
Ms. Wilson served in senior management positions at the CIA, in which she oversaw the work of other CIA employees, and she attained the level of GS-14, step 6 under the federal pay scale.
Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA.
Ms. Wilson served at various times overseas for the CIA.
Without discussing the specifics of Ms. W’ilson’s classified work, it is accurate to say that she worked on the prevention of the development and use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States.
In her various positions at the CIA, Ms. Wilson faced significant risks to her personal safety and her life.
She took on serious risks on behalf of her country.
Ms. Wilson’s work in many situations had consequences for the security of her colleagues, and maintaining her cover was critical to protecting the safety of both colleagues and others.
Putz on:
10/10/2005TOM MAGUIRE: How covert was Valerie Plame?
"Before you say "Nah, lock Rove up," imagine it was an anti-war State Department dissident who faced charges for pointing out that a Republican ex-ambassador who claimed to have evidence justifying a war was married to a not-so-covert CIA officer."7/15/2005
Since it seems as clear as anything in this affair that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent the day before Novak's column either, I think we can chalk this up to Joe Wilson's habitual disingenuousness.
...12/3/03
Nobody ever said that she wasn't working for the CIA -- the question is whether she was a covert spy or a paperpusher, and the answer seems pretty clearly to be the latter.
Wilson says the pictures [in Vanity Fair] won't identify her. Sorry -- if you're really an undercover spy, and really worried about national security, you don't do this sort of thing. Unless, perhaps, you're a self-promoter first, and a spy second.How's that four years of wrong taste, Putz?
As Tim F. at Ballon Juice notes,
Gen. Michael Hayden was appointed by Bush to several top positions, including Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Will the usual suspects smear him as a delusional Bush-hater pushing an agenda? It seems pretty silly, but the only alternative is an abject, mass apology for sneeringly insisting that VPW couldn’t possibly be a covert agent. Since neither seems forthcoming* I guess they’ll talk about something else from now on.I don't see Putz apologizing any time soon.
UPDATE
Powerline is still in denial.
Among other things, Plame apparently is claiming to have been a covert agent, and to have had nothing to do with her husband's assignment in Niger. Remarkable!John doesn't understand the concept, apparently, that "Valerie Plame" and "CIA Director Michael Hayden" are actually two different people. Remarkable!
UPDATED AGAIN
Putz blows off Gen. Hayden as well.
SO IT WAS JOE WILSON WHO OUTED VALERIE PLAME? And even she didn't know whether she was covert? I can't believe I'm even still blogging about this.Just to review a portion of the statement vetted by Hayden:
During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.At this point, the only word for this kind of denial is pathological.Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.
This was classified information.
Feel free to cut and paste the above and send it to him.
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