FBI agents swarmed her neighborhood trying to find anyone who knew previous to the scandalous White House dirty trick of 'outing' her, if Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. None of them knew.
Also, in the first paragraph of the linked article from the Boston Globe you will find further confirmation that Valerie Plame was not only covert but she was still doing assignments overseas.
That takes care of the Republicans' excuse of her case not fitting into the 'Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982', because she had not been overseas since 1997.
Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent and she DID have assignments overseas so that makes what Cheney, Libby and Rove did, treason! And, treason during 'war time' has the penalty of death and I, unlike Al Franken, don't think the Vice President should be given any breaks on sentencing.
The spy next door left couple in dark
Plame's neighbors cite visit by FBI as probe wraps up
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | October 27, 2005
WASHINGTON -- David and Victoria Tillotson knew Valerie Plame as a neighbor and friend for more than five years. Plame was, the Tillotsons believed, an international economic consultant, taking occasional trips abroad while looking after her young children in an upper-class enclave of Northwest Washington.
Then, one morning in 2003, David Tillotson read a Robert Novak column that quoted two unidentified administration officials as saying Plame was a CIA operative. ''I was stunned," Tillotson said.
Yesterday, Tillotson said he had shared his surprise with FBI agents on Monday, who questioned him about whether he had any inkling of Plame's CIA work before the Novak column was published.
The FBI visit came as special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up his investigation into whether White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby leaked Plame's identity.
Fitzgerald met with the grand jury yesterday without making an announcement about indictments, and also met for 45 minutes with Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan of US District Court in Washington.
The developments kept the White House in suspense about one of the most highly anticipated federal investigations of in recent years.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan yesterday again declined to comment on the investigation. ''Everybody is focused on the priorities of the American people," he said, while also acknowledging that White House staffers are ''following developments in the news."
As part of his probe, Fitzgerald is checking whether it was publicly known that Plame worked at the CIA.
Tillotson, a communications lawyer, believes the visit by FBI agents demonstrates the special counsel is double-checking his theory that the leak by administration officials exposed Plame as a CIA operative, even to some of her close friends. Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a former US ambassador who was sent by the CIA to investigate assertions that Iraq was trying to acquire material for nuclear weapons from Niger. After Wilson publicly expressed his doubts, his wife's identity as a CIA operative was leaked. That led Wilson to say that his wife's job was disclosed by White House officials seeking retribution against him.
Tillotson recalled that one day in early July 2003, Wilson pulled him aside and told him to look for an op-ed piece he was writing in The New York Times. In that article, Wilson wrote that ''some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraq threat." More than a week later, on July 14, the identity of Wilson's wife was reported by Novak in a column.
''We were stunned, despite the fact that we knew them well," Tillotson said, referring to Plame and her husband. ''We understood she worked for some company doing economic consulting on an international basis. I heard my wife in the kitchen saying, 'No, that can't be.' It didn't fit the person we knew at all."
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
No Doubt, Plame Was a Covert Agent
FBI agents swarmed her neighborhood trying to find anyone who knew previous to the scandalous White House dirty trick of 'outing' her, if Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. None of them knew.
Also, in the first paragraph of the linked article from the Boston Globe you will find further confirmation that Valerie Plame was not only covert but she was still doing assignments overseas.
That takes care of the Republicans' excuse of her case not fitting into the 'Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982', because she had not been overseas since 1997.
Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent and she DID have assignments overseas so that makes what Cheney, Libby and Rove did, treason! And, treason during 'war time' has the penalty of death and I, unlike Al Franken, don't think the Vice President should be given any breaks on sentencing.
The spy next door left couple in dark
Plame's neighbors cite visit by FBI as probe wraps up
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | October 27, 2005
WASHINGTON -- David and Victoria Tillotson knew Valerie Plame as a neighbor and friend for more than five years. Plame was, the Tillotsons believed, an international economic consultant, taking occasional trips abroad while looking after her young children in an upper-class enclave of Northwest Washington.
Then, one morning in 2003, David Tillotson read a Robert Novak column that quoted two unidentified administration officials as saying Plame was a CIA operative. ''I was stunned," Tillotson said.
Yesterday, Tillotson said he had shared his surprise with FBI agents on Monday, who questioned him about whether he had any inkling of Plame's CIA work before the Novak column was published.
The FBI visit came as special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up his investigation into whether White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby leaked Plame's identity.
Fitzgerald met with the grand jury yesterday without making an announcement about indictments, and also met for 45 minutes with Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan of US District Court in Washington.
The developments kept the White House in suspense about one of the most highly anticipated federal investigations of in recent years.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan yesterday again declined to comment on the investigation. ''Everybody is focused on the priorities of the American people," he said, while also acknowledging that White House staffers are ''following developments in the news."
As part of his probe, Fitzgerald is checking whether it was publicly known that Plame worked at the CIA.
Tillotson, a communications lawyer, believes the visit by FBI agents demonstrates the special counsel is double-checking his theory that the leak by administration officials exposed Plame as a CIA operative, even to some of her close friends. Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a former US ambassador who was sent by the CIA to investigate assertions that Iraq was trying to acquire material for nuclear weapons from Niger. After Wilson publicly expressed his doubts, his wife's identity as a CIA operative was leaked. That led Wilson to say that his wife's job was disclosed by White House officials seeking retribution against him.
Tillotson recalled that one day in early July 2003, Wilson pulled him aside and told him to look for an op-ed piece he was writing in The New York Times. In that article, Wilson wrote that ''some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraq threat." More than a week later, on July 14, the identity of Wilson's wife was reported by Novak in a column.
''We were stunned, despite the fact that we knew them well," Tillotson said, referring to Plame and her husband. ''We understood she worked for some company doing economic consulting on an international basis. I heard my wife in the kitchen saying, 'No, that can't be.' It didn't fit the person we knew at all."
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