By way of the New York Sun, we now have a once-hidden Plame-gate document from July 7, 2003 that the righties are spinning to their advantage. The Sun headline: "No Hint Seen in Memo that Plame's Role Was Secret."
I haven't the time to look this over as I should, but here are some flash reactions...
1. The memo was written well after the Libby/Miller/Woodward interactions.
2. It refers to Wilson's wife -- properly -- as Valerie Wilson. Whoever leaked to Novak derived his or her information from another document -- one which still used the "Valerie Plame" nomenclature.
3. Cheney told Scooter that she worked in the Directorate of Operations. That means agents in the field, doing spy stuff.
For a much more detailed analysis, consult emptywheel here.
UPDATE: The first reader comment below is, potentially, of great interest. Perhaps our anonymous commentator would care to add a few details?
3 comments:
having known a CIA field guy during the time the leak occurred , Plame was undercover and an entire network of people was blown on purpose. BushCo exposed many many undercover people by association. Many CIA guys were scared for their lives and many networks were blown contrary to what Repubs want you to believe.
I'm not the one who made the above comment, but you can confirm parts of it via public sources. In particular, leaking Valerie's name and occupation had the effect of blowing her cover firm, "Brewster Jennings" and thereby blowing the cover of all other operatives who were using the same bogus firm as their cover.
i interviewed larisa from rawstory last week and we talked about why plame was outed and brewster jennings and sibel and how it all fits together. start here but also see the other two installments
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