She’s a hack who’s been caught lying in the past. And gatewaypundit has no credibility. Put the two together and there’s no chance they’re telling the truth.
Please show us your source and link proving attorney Victoria Toensing is a liar. No, your opinion is not a credible source.
Is what was posted by the gatewaypundit true or false?
Sure.
She told Congress Valerie Plame was not covert....
REP. WATSON: this is your statement from that date -- "Plame was not covert." And my question directly is, do you still maintain that on that date she was not a covert CIA officer?
MS. TOENSING: I was trying to answer. Yes, I still maintain that --
REP. WATSON: Yes or no? Yes or no?
MS. TOENSING: I still maintain it, yes.
REP. WATSON: That she was not a covert --
MS. TOENSING: Under the law.
REP. WATSON: Okay.
MS. TOENSING: Completely.
REP. WATSON: Ms. Plame was sworn.
MS. TOENSING: And I'm sworn. I'm giving you my legal interpretation under the law as I know the law, and I helped draft the law. The person is supposed to reside outside of the United States.
REP. WATSON: Did you receive any information directly from the CIA or Ms. Wilson that support your assertion that Ms. Wilson was not a cover officer?
MS. TOENSING: I didn't talk to Ms. Wilson or the CIA.
And that's a lie -- Valerie Plame was covert according to the CIA with whom Toensing admits she did not speak.
Lead investigator, Patrick Fitzgerald, speaking to her being a classified agent...
"Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community. Valerie Wilson's friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life. The fact that she was a CIA officer was not well- known, for her protection or for the benefit of all us. It's important that a CIA officer's identity be protected, that it be protected not just for the officer, but for the nation's security.
Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003. The first sign of that cover being blown was when Mr. Novak published a column on July 14th, 2003." ~ Patrick Fitzgerald, 10.28.2005
Speaking to the harm caused by the leak,
Judge Tatel wrote...
As to the leaks' harmfulness, although the record omits specifics about Plame's work, it appears to confirm, as alleged in the public record and reported in the press, that she worked for the CIA in some unusual capacity relating to counterproliferation. Addressing deficiencies of proof regarding the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the special counsel refers to Plame as "a person whose identity the CIA was making specific efforts to conceal and who had carried out covert work overseas within the last 5 years" - representations I trust the special counsel would not make without support. (8/27/04 Aff. at 28 n.15.)
And that support came from the CIA...
Unclassified Summary of Valerie Wilson's CIA Employment and Cover History
The information in this document comes from records maintained in Privacy Act systems of records and therefore is protected under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 522a.
On 1 January 2002, Valerie Wilson was working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations (DO). She was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) at CIA Headquarters, where she served as the chief of a CPD component with responsibility for weapons proliferation issues related to Iraq.
While assigned to CPD, Ms. Wilson engaged in temporary duty (TDY) travel overseas on official business. She traveled at least seven times to more than ten countries.
When traveling overseas, Ms. Wilson always traveled under a cover identity--sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias--but always using cover--whether official or non-official (NOC)--with no ostensible relationship to the CIA
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.
Valerie Plame,
under oath...
PLAME: In the run-up to the war with Iraq, I worked in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, still as a covert officer whose affiliation with the CIA was classified.
"But I was covert. I did travel overseas on secret missions within the last five years." ~ Valerie Plame, 3.16.2007