Comments on: So Much for Her Privacy and Life as a Secret Agent

By: PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science » PoliBlog on Rove and Plame

PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science » PoliBlog on Rove and Plame — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:03:19 +0000

[...] Outside The Beltway: So Much for Her Privacy and Life as a Secret Agent [...]

By: LilacRose

LilacRose — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:18:44 +0000

This Plame stuff still makes me yawn...

My sister may find her way to my blog pretty soon. She's really into this Plame story, so this post...

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:28:04 +0000

Gift as far as I'm concerned. But then, I make a study of weirdness.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:12:03 +0000

Boy Steve, you really know how to draw âem in.

It's a gift...or curse, I'm not sure.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:39:31 +0000

Sarcasm doesnât seem to be working
You can say that again.

By: diddy

diddy — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:11:39 +0000

What publicity was Plame seeking when she went by her husband's name and worked undercover? This is the "flypaper strategy" for blown NOCs and it stinks as badly here as it does in Iraq. Ironically, there would be no flypaper strategy if the intelligence Joe Wilson collected on his now-infamous mission had been taken seriously. She could get a new cover, even today. It happens. It's brazen but it can be done. If she were any good at her job before it would actually be a good calculated risk to take. But no one in this administration has any particular interest in whether someone is good at her job. You can go to one party -- by the invitation of someone with whom you have had previous business dealings -- and still have a modest social life. (I can see, however, where someone with no social life might not see the distinction.) By the way, take it from my namesake: it was a bitching party. Sorry you weren't invited. Actually, no, I'm not.

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:03:47 +0000

Have you boys stopped to wonder just how much undercover she ever was?

Sarcasm doesn't seem to be working, so let's spell this out.

Valerie Plame was once an undercover agent. Working on a non-official cover, which is apparently as undercover as they get. At this time it was important to keep her identity a secret.

Then Robert Novak, with the help of Administration officials, revealed that she was an undercover agent.

At this point her identity was no longer a secret. Because it had been revealed by Robert Novak, with the help of Administration officials.

Now that her identity is no longer a secret, her picture appears in a magazine.

Why is this supposed to make us wonder how undercover she ever was?

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:03:16 +0000

Boy Steve, you really know how to draw 'em in. Let's see, we have an undercover CIA operative, outed by the government (or outed by the press to the government, the story is unclear). And a picture shows up in whatever this magazine is.

Apparently her name, husband's identity, and public photographs are no problem for her (or anyone else's) safety. Have you boys stopped to wonder just how much undercover she ever was?

And Steve, I've just noticed an improvement in ... how to say it ... accurate ordering of letters here. I thought maybe there was some outside influence :-)

By: Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis)

Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis) — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:43:42 +0000

Around the Blogosphere

How Valerie Plame kept herself from the public eye Michelle Malkin (also here), Outside the Beltway, Right Thinking Girl...

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:36:54 +0000

The Vanity Fair piece doesn't even say that she's a CIA agent. It doesn't even seem to say that she's married to Wilson. But I'm sure the time-travellers who showed the photo to Novak filled in the details for him.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:08:47 +0000

It's as good an explanation as any, and most right-wingers would readily accept it. Either because they believed it, or because it was the necessary and official line.

By: Iron Lungfish

Iron Lungfish — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:47:16 +0000

I get it now! Robert Novak read Vanity Fair now, then travelled backwards in time to 2003 to tell himself that she was a CIA agent! It alllll makes perfect sense now!

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:36:21 +0000

A 2005 picture in Vanity Fair identifying her as Joe Wilson's wife blew her cover retroactively?

By: Life Justifies Art § Unqualified Offerings

Life Justifies Art § Unqualified Offerings — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:53:16 +0000

[...] of the hot wife coupled with the frumpy husband has a basis in reality. Posted by Jim Henley @ 9:53 pm, Filed under:Main [...]

By: Kerfuffles

Kerfuffles — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:12:22 +0000

Big Scooper's Scoop Verified

there is NO THERE there, and the entire kerfuffle has been little more than a publicity stunt by the former ambassador and his CIA wife! Perhaps the good ambassador and his wife were the leakers, as they have obviously enjoyed the spotlight and their...