"What's next for Valerie Plame?"

Well, let's see? She and Hubby both screwed the country. I'm thinking a career at vivid.com would seem like a natural.

Virtually everyone agrees that she wasn’t working in an undercover capacity anymore...

Since her employment was classified, in other words James, secret, I would say that virtually no one, no one you would know anyway, actually knew a thing about her real employment status. And those that did know where sworn by blood oath (or its modern equivilent) to secrecy.

It was the very revalation of her classified, secret, covert, employment at the CIA that prompted the CIA to refer that action to the Justice department for criminal prosecution.

I’m not out to discredit her, merely the media notion that she was a female James Bond.

Well she was a secret agent. Isn't that closer to being a female James Bond that some blogger in his pajamas working all whiskery out of his bedroom?

In the publics mind, her career was exotic, exciting and mysterious. She has, as required by her employer, never said anything publicly about her real job, even to this day. And those who know, aren't talking.

You can try to discredit her if you want to but the public image of her you will never dispell.

Tom Christian
Weston, FL

I didn't say "proves" because that would be unsupported.

I'm afraid though that you don't have much that "points" your way ... it strikes me as little more than hope, that dispite the evidence, Libby did not know.

Well, yeah.

The whole point was that the CIA folks gathering intel on Iraq WMD sent Joe Wilson--who is neither a WMD expert nor an Africa expert--to Niger to verify the yellowcake story. In trying to figure out how that happened, Cheney asked Tenet and he told him that Wilson's wife recommended him.

Further, it’s rather clear that “outing” her was inadvertant in the sense that the only point was to cast aspersions on Joe Wilson’s mission. They weren’t trying to punish him by risking his wife’s life and career; they were merely pointing out the his mission for the CIA was recommended by his wife, who worked there.

Actually, not only is this unsupported by the evidence, the available evidence actually points the other way daily kos story

I don't have much regard for Joe Wilson but have no anomosity towards his wife. Beyond her name and a few vague details about her career, my impression of Valerie Plame Wilson is that she's a very bright, attractive woman who has served well. I'm not out to discredit her, merely the media notion that she was a female James Bond.

It was fine to maintain that pretense in the beginning; my initial posts operated under that presumption. It quickly turned out not to be the case.

Virtually everyone agrees that she wasn't working in an undercover capacity anymore and that, owing to her marriage to a high profile diplomat and other factors, wasn't going to again.

Further, it's rather clear that "outing" her was inadvertant in the sense that the only point was to cast aspersions on Joe Wilson's mission. They weren't trying to punish him by risking his wife's life and career; they were merely pointing out the his mission for the CIA was recommended by his wife, who worked there.

odo:

Click the links in the article above. I know Fitzgerald said that but I'm baffled by that assertion.

What has she ever done, except serve her country in an very important yet highly dangerous job, that gets you so upset?

I don't understand why conservatives, yourself included, are trying to discredit her.

I thought he made a very strong statement that Plame's position was "classified" and "not knows outside the intellegence community."

He also made a very strong statement that she was "blown" first by Novak.

Compare and contrast to the rightist talking point:

"Or, she may not. If her career was derailed to begin with."

Come on man, Fitzgerald is a smart guy saying just as much as he can say ... and what he says contradicts this assertion.