yes she was....according to the prosecutor...?
In the "unclassified summary" of his memorandum which was based on information cleared by the CIA and became publicly available Tuesday, Fitzgerald provided new details about Wilson's previously classified activities at the agency. In January 2002, she was working for the agency "as an operations officer" in the Directorate of Operations's Counterproliferation Division (CPD) and serving as "chief" of a unit with responsibility for weapons-proliferation issues related to Iraq. In that capacity, he added, she traveled overseas in an undercover capacity.
"She traveled at least seven times to more than 10 countries," the document states. "When traveling overseas, Ms. Wilson always traveled under a cover identity … At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
Libby's trial earlier this year established that at least three other Bush administration officials—former deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage, White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (who testified under a grant of immunity)—also disclosed information about Valerie Wilson's identity to journalists. But Fitzgerald contends that Libby's disclosures—primarily to New York Times reporter Judith Miller—were made "deliberately and for the purpose for influencing media coverage of the public debate concerning intelligence leading to the war in Iraq" and, according to Libby's own testimony, "may have been sanctioned by the Vice President." Moreover, while Libby denied ever knowing that Valerie Wilson was a covert agent (and prosecutors never introduced any evidence that he had) "other evidence obtained by the grand jury indicated that defendant learned that Ms. Wilson worked at the CIA from multiple government officials under circumstances that, at a bare minimum, warranted inquiry before the information was publicly disseminated."
Fitzgerald Says Plame Was a Covert Agent
Immaterial, Libby didn't "out" her.
who did Armitage get his information about Plame from....?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source who revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak in 2003, touching off a federal investigation, two sources familiar with Armitage's role tell CNN.
The sources said Armitage revealed Plame's role at the CIA almost inadvertently in a casual conversation with Novak, and it is not clear if he knew her identity was classified at the time.
Armitage was not indicted by the federal grand jury that investigated the disclosure of Plame's name to Novak and other journalists. Deliberately revealing the identify of a CIA operative can be a crime.
CNN.com - Sources: State Department official source of Plame leak - Aug 30, 2006
armitage leaked to novak.
Libby leaked to Judith Miller,
Rove leaked to other reporters, Ari passed a bunch of info in his press meetings...
a FULL COURT PRESS
to expose her....
I am sorry but you are the WORST kind of partisan. You believe ONLY what you want to no matter how much proof your shown. Libby didn't do it, Armitage gave it to Novak who had NO idea that it wasn't already known. The biggest crime in the world is the one of a closed mind. You're, I actually think you KNOW that you're wrong but too but your pride is too great to admit it.
Libby didn't do it, time to put our big girl pants on.
Doc, what I have posted is straight from the horse's mouth, not a third party news paper's opinion, but from the Special Counselor in charge of the official investigation, Patrick Fitzgerald himself...
So, I am not making this up out of thin air, it is all what Counselor Fitzgerald discover when investigating for the truth....
This was a concerted effort to demean Wilson's op through his wife....directed by Cheney, not President Bush....he was left out of the loop...imo....by the way he responded when he was first told and the press hit him up on it...
But what was not proved, or even pursued, was whether Libby was really aware that Plame was also acting as a NOC when traveling overseas....did he know she was a covert operative?
Yes, he knew she worked in the CIA and her position there.... but did he know she went undercover???
He should have checked further before the planned leak of her working for the CIA....just by the position she did hold..... but this info was all on the down and low.....so they skipped that part of normal protocol....
But, at the same time, because none of the leakers probably did not know, she was a Covert Operative, and what they did by exposing her as a covert operative....was not done with intent to expose that she was a covert operative....it was for other Dirty Trickster reasons.
Us arguing about whether she was or was not a covert operative, really is just a side show of what they want us to focus on....
instead of the fact that our government, via the Vice President's direction, all being paid by us, used their time to play the dirtiest of dirty, politics.... AND they lied to us about the yellow-cake from Africa/Niger and were trying to subvert what happened and deflect our attention from that... imo.
