Reply #8: Plame's status as a NOC has finally been confirmed

[grizmaster]

While before it could only be deduced by the CIA'a call for an investigation, now we have the actual info to throw back at the freepers.



Plame was the COVERT operations chief of the Joint Task Force on Iraq.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-corn/new-book-mine-reveals-w_b_28752.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/corn

Was she merely ananalyst--as Bob Novak and others have claimed? Was she only a desk-jockey--as Jonah Goldberg of The National Review insisted? No. She was operations chief of the Joint Task Force on Iraq (JTFI), a unit of the Counterproliferation Division of the clandestine Directorate of Operations.

For the two years prior to her outing, Valerie Wilson worked to gather intelligence that would support the Bush White House's assertion that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was loaded with WMDs. This means that Armitage--as well as Karl Rove and Scooter Libby--leaked classified information about a undercover CIA officer whose job it had been to look for evidence of Saddam's WMD programs. Any irony here? During this part of her career, Valerie Wilson traveled overseas to monitor operations she and her staff at JTFI were mounting.