One Guy's Viewpoint

An Old Plame

Valerie Plame is still in the news, this last time showing her leaving the CIA for good. How long has this thing been going on? Well, that's too long.

I've read in several places that she had been out of covert operations too many years for the 1982 law regarding outing such people does not apply to her. These stories said that fears that she was compromised by one of the spies the CIA turns up in their midst from time to time (Aldrich maybe; I forget) led to her being put on a desk job. If true, then where's there a crime to investigate?

Fitzgerald certainly should know if a crime might have been committed before beginning an expensive investigation, convening grand juries and such. So, does she qualify under existing law as being a covert agent? Is she or isn't she? While there have been one or two indictments regarding lying, there has been none for outing Ms. Plame herself. And from what I read, there won't be.

posted by Burt @ 11:04 AM