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From: Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:40 AM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: Re: Plame's outing exposed more than just a CIA agent Worse yet, the Post is part of the left-wing cover-up of what was really involved here. Nobody mentions her husband's ties to Ramsey Clark's ANSWER. Nobody talks about Niger uranium captured by the Israelis in Operation Plumbat. An, worst of all, the Post does not own up to why it admitted,in October 2003, that it was at their house on the July 4 weekend BEFORE Wilson published his NY Times Op-Ed piece. Why would anybody have been interested in these people. I keep seeing the media continue its stupid focus on how this investigation will continue and somebody will still "get" Rove. They might want to look elsewhere. If this goes on, it's going to blow back on Wilson and his wife. Wilson is again whining that his wife is in danger and getting threats. Really? If so, why are these clowns still in the same house and making no effort to stay out of the limelight? Nobody told her idiotic butt to get in photos and talk to Vanity Fair. It's about time that someone opened up with some things, including the early, unexplained Washington Post involvement, the ANSWER/Cindy Sheehan connection, the lack of credentials, the truth about media suppression of evidence of biotoxins (WMD) in Iraq, and so on. The Post is really becoming a pathetic newspaper. Last week, their coverage of the Palestine hotel bombings in Baghdad was totally wrong. Their credibility is heavily damaged. R Bruce Tefft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course Plame is not even a CIA agent...she's a CIA officer. Nor was she an undercover operative (if she was, there'd have been an indictment). Nor was she under the "deepest form of cover"...what nonsense. Nor would the wife of any US Ambassador work overseas as a covert operator. Typical poorly researched, uninformed and ignorant reporting from the Washington Post. Bruce http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3163362 Article Last Updated: 10/29/2005 01:56:06 AM Plame's outing exposed more than just a CIA agent By Dafna Linzer The Washington Post WASHINGTON - More than Valerie Plame's identity was exposed when her name appeared in a syndicated column in the summer of 2003. A small Boston company listed as her employer suddenly was shown to be a bogus CIA front, and her alma mater in Belgium discovered it was a favored haunt of an American spy. At Langley, officials in the clandestine service quickly began drawing up a list of contacts and friends, cultivated over more than a decade, to triage any immediate damage. There is no indication, according to current and former intelligence officials, that the most dire of consequences - the risk of anyone's life - resulted from her outing. But after Plame's name appeared in Robert Novak's column, the CIA informed the Justice Department in a simple questionnaire that the damage was serious enough to warrant an investigation, officials said. The CIA has not conducted a formal damage assessment, as is routinely done in cases of espionage and after any legal proceedings have been exhausted. Friday, after a two-year inquiry into the leak, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald issued a five-count indictment against Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, for perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements during the grand jury investigation. Fitzgerald has not charged anyone with breaking a law that protects the identities of undercover operatives. Nonetheless, intelligence specialists said the exposure of Plame, who operated under the deepest form of cover, was a grim reminder of the risks spies face. ''Cover and tradecraft are the only forms of protection one has and to have that stripped away because of political scheming is the moral equivalent to exposing forward deployed military units,'' said Arthur Brown, who retired in February as the CIA's Asian Division chief and is now a senior vice president at the consultancy firm Control Risks Group. ''In the case of the military, they can pack up and go elsewhere. In the case of a serving clandestine officer, it's the end of that officer's ability to function in that role.'' For Plame, the most serious consequence may be professional. ''It's possible that no damage was done [to national security] but she can never [work] overseas again,'' said Mark Lowenthal, who retired from a senior management position at the CIA in March. Intelligence officials said they would never reveal the true extent of her contacts to protect the agency and its work. 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