can get a chance to do their firing in Afghanistan.  Take your rounds to Afghanistan.  The only problem is the GOP posse here long past the age where they can be drafted. But a draft is the way to go; fuck this bumper sticker patriot bullshit where "We support the troops as long as we aren't the troops."

and her life was endagered as well as people who worked for her by the reckless chickenshit leaking of Rove, Libby,  and Eric Edelman, Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President who worked for Libby. Edelman ended his work in Cheney's office under Libby in July of 2003.

Plame Leakers included Edelman, Romney's assistant now, who was Libby's assistant  and facilitated the Plame leak, who had the chutpah to get up yesterday and complain about  leaks in the WH ,  5 Deferment Dick Cheneym, and Rove who pissed in his pants 5 times a day while he sweated being indicted.  Rove is the perfect profile for somoene's bitch in the BOP.

According to General Michael Hayden appointed by George W. Bush,  who was Director of the CIA during the Plame leak, and during the investigation of Libby, Valerie Plame was a covert agent, during the time her status was revealed by Bob Novak. That's the kind of GOP dismissal like the WSJ who refused to spill a drop of ink covering the Libby trial.
Rep. Henry Waxman read a prepared statement with the express approval of the head of the CIA and reviewed therewith — that substantiated the fact that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA officer, working on classified WMD issues for the CIA and the national security fo the United States.

Plame most definitely supervised WMD covert operations and frequently travelled in the field to dangerous venues. This is well established, but somehow GOPsters get some kind of congenital exemption from reading and often writing that stays with them for life. Her travels as a covert agent were confirmed by Michael Hayden who was a Bush appointee as Director of the CIA.

Plame also testified before Congress that she was a covert agent, not some desk riding clerical worker as JS intimates.

VALERIE PLAME: Congressional Testimony 3.16.06 Testimony Before Committee on  Government Oversite and Reform House of Representatives United States of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3epOuEZTfNM

John Bates, the D.C. district court judge who dismissed the Wilson's civil suit acknowledged that Plame was a covert operative as did the head of the  CIA. The suit was dismissed on a very common ground that the Wilson's hadn't exhausted admin remedies. The D.C. Circuit upheld the dismissal in a 2-1 opinion. The S.Ct. denied cert. to their appeal.

Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison on 4 counts, a fine of $250 grand, and 2 years of supervised release.  He no longer practices law, and while he was spared entry into the  BOP, he remains convicted.



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the time of her outing by Mr. Novak because this issue was commonly discussed without context.

        For purposes of our national securities laws which make it a crime to knowingly identify a “covert agent” under some circumstances, the agent’s identity must not only be classified information but the agent must serve outside the US or have served outside the US within the past five years:


(4) The term "covert agent" means — (A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency — (i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and (ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States;

       When Ms. Plame was initially outed by Novak, many concluded she was not a statutory covert agent because she was working in the US. Nonetheless, the US Attorney subsequently filed court papers acknowledging that she had taken trips outside the US during the past 5 years and was covert for this reason.

      Apparently he did  not prosecute Scooter for this crime because he did not think he could prove the scienter requirements under the statute. Disclosure of a covert agent’s identity is a crime only if done “knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States.”