(4) The term "covert agent" means—(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency—
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States;
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982
"While I helped to manage and run secret worldwide operations against this WMD target from CIA headquarters in Washington, I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions to find vital intelligence.” - Valerie Plame-Wilson, Former Covert CIA Agent-3/16/07, in sworn testimony before Congress
Victoria Toensing has spent the last few years playing the White House's pit bull by attacking Valerie Plame's status as a covert CIA agent.
Toensing has been adamant that Plame didn't qualify as covert because she was based at Langley and hadn't served abroad within the last five years.
Well, Poor Vicky - Her entire 3 1/2 year argument just came crashing down in a puff of smoke....Either that, or Valerie Plame perjured herself in front of the entire nation.
When Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings asked Ms. Plame today if, “During the past five years, from today, did you conduct secret missions overseas?” She answered, “Yes I did, congressman.”
Did Valerie Plame just perjure herself there? She's not stupid.
Poor Vicky. When Henry Waxman asked Toensing, under oath, if she had ever asked anyone in the CIA if Plame was covert, she answered, 'no'. Well, who was her source then? Who told Toensing that Plame hadn't been on an overseas assignment over the last five years - Sean Hannity, Brit Hume, or just who?
Poor little Vicky wrote a piece for the Washington Post last month where she wrote that Patrick Fitzgerald, "should have known (all he had to do was ask the CIA) that Plame was not covert". Well, The CIA has been asked and General Michael Hayden, the CIA director, has stated, "Ms. Wilson was covert."
Maybe Poor little Vicky...the White House's little pit bull, should have asked the CIA. Because she sure looks stupid now because of it.
As I watched Toensing spinning on Hannity & Colmes tonight she kept muttering over and over that Plame wasn't, 'covert under the law'.
Well, sorry Vicky, you're wrong.
You claim to have been involved in writing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 - It's too bad you forgot section, 4 A ii.
