Facts Sheet
Valerie Plame was a covert agent who was active in the field.
This was confirmed by the special prosecutor, three judges,
and the head of the CIA.
There was no "the leaker" as there
were many leakers including: I. Lewis Libby, Ari Fleischer,
Richard Armitage, and Karl Rove.
The outing of Plame didn't simply affect
her career, it destroyed a full field branch and endangered
many contacts who would now be identified in context with
Plame.
"There was no crime commited" is the biggest
fabrication of the case. The obstruction charge of Libby
was a direct result of throwing sand in the prosecutors eyes.
Robert Novak is allowed to continue writing
on this case despite being a principle player in the case.
He was responsible for outing Plame, and it served no information
in doing so.
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The Outing of US Intelligence Service
and the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson
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July 14, 2003 - Robert Novak writes an article revealing
to us that the wife of a former ambassador was also a
CIA agent. We learned that she worked in the counter
proliferation division. Her name became the center of
a White House controversy and so far has resulted in
a felony conviction of a high ranking official in the
VP office. The case is dead quiet regarding criminal
charges against officials and a civil suit by the Wilsons
against VP Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, and
Richard Armitage.
Over the next 4 years the nation would be deceived by
many as the case would unfold in public. Even today there
are many who still make false statements about Valerie
Plame not being covert, even though she says she was,
the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says she was,
Judge Reggie Walton says she was, and through a statement
read in the House Oversight Committee, CIA chief Michael
Hayden said she was covert. Even Judge John Bates
who dismissed, on subject matter jurisdiction, stated
that she was covert, and even said that a senior officer
erred in concluding that Plame sent her husband to Niger.
The other lie would be that Patrick Fitzgerald "knew
who the leaker was" and it was "Richard Armitage".
The statement would basically imply that most of the
witnesses in the Scooter Libby trial were liars. Judith
Miller simply didn't print Plame's name but was told
about her by I. Lewis Libby. Additionally, Matt Cooper
and others have written about their conversations with
higher officials and demonstrated what looks to be a
campaign versus a simple slip from some out there official.
I'm still piecing together many bits to help provide
a logical narrative in video form and for now recommend
you to read, Anatomy of Deceit by
Marcy Wheeler.
The book does an amazing job of keeping track of documents
and statements on file and clearly demonstrates the timeline
and facts of the case. Her preface on Judith Miller's
coverage for the NYC of the Iraq war leads in well to
the story as does her coverage of the encounters between
Rocco Martino, Italian freelance spy, and Elizabeth Burba
of Panarama magazine in Milan.
Over time I will create pages to demonstrate various
aspects of this case and why it has become, for me, like
a Rosetta stone for deciphering the cryptic behavior
of an administration out of step with the laws it was
supposed to uphold and honor. They have done neither
and only when seen across the many issues and many losses
can one really understand that absolute power corrupts
absolutely.
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