Golly Gee Whillikers! Plame Vindicated: She WAS a covert agent, after all!!

Who woulda thunk it? 

 Certainly not the hordes of wingnuts, all-too-eager to trash a patriotic American simply because they did not like her husband's message. 

And not just any American, but one dedicated to the eradication of Weapons of Mass Destruction:  remember those?  As in the Weapons of Mass Destruction that did not exist in Iraq, as Rumsfeld  put it: 

"We know where they [WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

No, Valerie Plame was tasked as a covert agent at the time that she was purposely exposed by none other than Dick Cheney via his henchmen Libby and Rove, threating her and this nation's other covert agents and operatives that were on the hunt for REAL WMDs.

It's now a matter of public record, as Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has filed a memorandum containing verification of her covert status as a part of the sentencing phase for Scooter Libby:

Undercover travel
The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."

Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business."  The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times."  When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

Source Document (h/t Salon.com: you may need to watch an ad to view) 

So:  will the right-wing conservatard pundits who frothed at the mouth that she was not, could not, be a covert agent when she was outed apologize?  Correct the record?  Admit they were wrong?  Rethink their position?

Don't count on it.  As they say, "You can't tell an idiot he's stupid.  He won't believe you."

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