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Operative: Leak threatens nation
BRIAN MINK
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
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Plame Wilson spoke about the July 2003 leak of her confidential CIA credentials. That leak led to the 2007 conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"This is not a Democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue," she said. "This is a national security issue."
Plame Wilson said she believes the Bush administration revealed her CIA status to reporter Bob Novak out of revenge for a 2003 opinion piece her husband Joe Wilson wrote for The New York Times.
The White House "threw everything they had at us," she said. "I think this was treasonous."
Wilson has lived and worked in Africa for 20 years as a representative of the U.S. government, his wife said.
Wilson's public dispute of the White House's claims that Iraq was attempting to obtain ingredients for weapons of mass destruction from Niger caused the administration to seek revenge against him, she said.
"I was accused of nepotism, my husband would be called a liar, traitor, worse," she said. "We would read about these people - Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame - in the newspapers, and they weren't us."
Plame Wilson said when her covert status was revealed, she feared for the lives of the people in foreign countries who had helped her obtain intelligence during her CIA career.
She said she also worried about her children's safety and said she regretted that she would no longer be able to conduct covert operations as an agent.
Plame Wilson resigned from the CIA several months after Novak's column was published. She has since filed a civil suit against several top government officials, including Cheney.
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posted 4/17/08 @ 9:03 AM EST
Richard Armitage accidently revealed her covert status to Novak. This is a non-story by a woman who loves the media spotlight.
pd
posted 4/21/08 @ 6:31 PM EST
Ring. Your fifteen minutes of fame is up. Please sit down.
Give Me A Break
posted 4/22/08 @ 11:40 AM EST
It's true that Valerie Plame Wilson is just a pawn in a much larger game. But it is truly unbelievable that this issue, along with the faulty and dishonest rationale for the whole Iraq fiasco, did not become an even bigger issue for the Bush administration. (Continued…)
Peter Kauffner
posted 4/22/08 @ 12:52 PM EST
Joe Wilson was the leaker! He put her name into his "Who's Who" and also told David Corn she was a CIA agent long before Novak column was publish. She should sue him. (Continued…)
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