So the question now becomes “if she was outed by a spy in the 90’s how covert was she really?”  The public may not have known, but the intelligence community did, so how effective was her cover?

And why didn’t the CIA protect her?

The truth is clear though, that the damage to her cover had been done long before Richard Armitage outed her.  

It might explain why the CIA didn’t care he was outing her, and why that they ignored her campaign contributions.  They knew she wasn’t covert, she was compromised.

CIA officer named prior to column

The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.

Mrs. Plame’s identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.

The documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them, the officials said.

The article again address the Joe Wilson lied topic.

In 2003, Mr. Wilson publicly debunked reports that Iraq was seeking uranium ore from Niger. Mr. Wilson also said his report ruling out the attempted purchase was ignored. 

However, recent reports by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the British government have undermined Mr. Wilson’s charges. The Senate says Mr. Wilson’s report, contrary to his charges, actually bolstered their view that Iraq was seeking uranium ore from Niger.

Just more food for thought.  What is becoming more and more clear is that nothing in this debacle is as it seems.

And that my friends is all this is.  Waxman is conducting a kangaroo court and is pandering to self promoting liars and hypocrites.

The media are the biggest hypocrites, for they supported the leakers, and argued it was no crime at the time, while they now pander to poor Val who was victimized….by them.

Plame is a liar.  Too many people have clearly said she was not covert, and that she gave recommendations for her husband.  She lied, period.  I don’t expect Ringmaster Waxman to call her on it.

Wilson lied about his trip, about his findings, about the conclusions, about who he told, about the president, and pretty much everything else related to the issue.  Joe and Val are partisan hacks who are in this now for the movie deal and the lawsuit.  Period.

The democrats continue the hypocrisy of their condemnation of anything they can use to make Republicans look bad.  Put it this way, I will have no respect for any Democrat in Washington DC until William “icebox” Jefferson is charged for the 90 thousand dollar bribe in his freezer.

This is court theater, and the media is a willing subscriber.  This and the Libby trial have no point and no reason to exist other then politics.  We already know who leaked her name, Richard Armitage.  Will he testify?  Will he be charged?  Nope. 

Why?  Because no one on the left wants to have him on the record saying that Bush and Rove were not involved, and it was just an accident.  And they do not want to concede that it wasn’t a crime anyway.

The democrats will seize any chance to make the republicans look weak, and the most disappointing part of this fiasco, is that the republicans are letting them.  Chicken hearted republicans breaking ranks for their political careers and sacrificing principle for politics.  Cowardly conservatives who refuse to make a stand.

In the latest round of politics a go-go, I truly despise the pandering and absolute dreck the democrats are spewing, but the republicans are disappointing me too for their refusal to fight back.