Michael Isikoff ofNewsweek laid to rest that right wing argument that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent: But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done “covert work overseas” on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA “was making specific efforts to conceal” her identity, according to newly released […]
From Newsweek Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue? Newsweek Aug. 15, 2005 issue – The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only […]
This week the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) chairman, Ken Mehlman, put out a “talking points” memo to help discredit Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame while showing support for Karl Rove’s actions of disclosing a CIA operative’s identity. As soon as I read these I realized that the RNC was in fact putting their old spin […]