Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Valerie Plame

You can't have it both ways.


The woman on the left edge of the photo with her eyes closed makes me think of Valerie Plame. I have been thinking for a while that Plame is connected to me somehow. Either she is just a stand-in for my role in the intelligence community or she got burned as a result of me being burned, as there were probably a lot of other operatives that got burned as a result of the betrayal against me by the Microsoft-Corbis terrorists and their accomplices, including George W. Bush.




















070524-N-7656T-001 NEW YORK (May 24, 2007) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomes Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen to New York City at the official Mayoral Fleet Week Welcome at Gracie Mansion. This is the 20th anniversary for the annual New York City Fleet Week. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Tackitt (RELEASED)

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Valerie Plame was 34 years, 330 days, old on 3/15/1998.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_plame

Valerie Plame Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame April 19, 1963, in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency officer who held non-official cover (NOC) status prior to the public disclosure of her classified covert CIA identity in a syndicated American newspaper column.[1] Her identity was leaked publicly in his column, published on July 14, 2003, by Robert Novak, who identified Mrs. Wilson, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, as "an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction" named "Valerie Plame." Her legal surname, however, has been Wilson since her marriage to Ambassador Wilson in 1998.[2] Ambassador Wilson's Op-Ed critical of the George W. Bush administration published in the New York Times ("What I Didn't Find in Africa") on July 6, 2003, Robert Novak's response to it in his column the next week (July 14), identifying Wilson's wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA operative," and the possible sources of the leaks leading to Novak's disclosure have become subjects of extended controversy. Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been convicted of four felony counts brought by the United States Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel and the Wilsons have filed a civil suit (Plame v. Cheney) against Libby and Cheney, presidential advisor Karl Rove, and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

In late 2003 the political controversy, referred to as the CIA leak scandal and sometimes as the "Plame affair" or the "Plame scandal," "Plamegate," resulted in the Justice Department referring the FBI investigation to the United States Office of Special Counsel, headed by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who convened a grand jury to probe alleged violations of criminal statutes, including the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Identities_Protection_Act

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (Pub.L. 97-200, 50 U.S.C. § 421-426) is a United States federal law that makes it a federal crime to intentionally reveal the identity of an agent who one knows to be in or recently in certain covert roles with a U.S. intelligence agency.

The law was written, in part, as a response to several incidents where Central Intelligence Agency agents' identities were revealed. Under then existing law, such disclosures were legal when they did not involve the release of classified information. In 1975, CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch[1] was assassinated by the Greek terrorist group November 17 after his identity was revealed in several listings by a magazine called CounterSpy, edited by Timothy Butz. A local paper checked with CounterSpy to confirm his identity
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There is an ongoing investigation being conducted by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into whether this law and others were violated in the identification of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in a 2003 newspaper column by Robert Novak. [3] Former Vice Presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby was convicted on two counts of perjury, one count of obstruction of justice and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. [4] However, these charges were not made under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Other figures involved in the investigation include White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, and reporters Bob Woodward, Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper. The matter of whether Plame's identity was covered under the act is still under debate; some claim that she wasn't assigned overseas within 5 years of her "outing", but David Corn and Michael Isikoff have reported that she was. Either way it did identify Plame as an employees of the CIA front company the Brewster Jennings & Associates, and so revealed the identities of other CIA agents "employed" there