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Sunday, February 05, 2006

So much for the "Oh, she was just a desk jockey" story
Posted by Jill | 12:27 PM

Ever since the CIA leak case gained traction, the Bush-worshipping minions have dutifully parrotted their White House Marching Orders by saying that Valerie Plame was NOT a covert officer and that she was "just a desk jockey".

Examples are here, here, here, and here.

Let the apology countdown begin, because the "desk jockey" meme has now been debunked:

Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge's opinion.


So Dick Cheney told Scooter Libby that Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" (yeah, right), but he didn't know she was NOC. Did he bother to find out? Do Bush Administration officials routinely blow the cover of CIA agents when they don't know their status, or did Plame "ask for it" because her husband dared to question the Bush lies that led us to war?

Either way, the fact that this occurred right within the administration tells me that these people are not to be trusted with national security, and they sure as hell are not to be allowed to go on fishing expeditions using illegal wiretaps and call them "terrorist hunts."

UPDATE: Nitpicker has a selection of quotes from wingnut pundits who insisted that Valerie Plame was NOT undercover and who now ought to apologize. I'm not holding my breath.
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