Plame's identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:49 AM EST

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The question of whether Valerie Plame's employment by the Central Intelligence Agency was a secret is the key issue in the two-year investigation to determine if someone broke the law by leaking her CIA affiliation to the news media.

Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald contends that Plame's friends "had no idea she had another life." But Plame's secret life could be easily penetrated with the right computer sleuthing and an understanding of how the CIA's covert employees work.

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madbaddangerous2know

And of course the law says that you cannot reveal the name of a covert spy or one who has been undercover in the last five years. She had not been undercover for seven years.

For that time, she had been walking undisguised through the front door of the CIA's Langley headquarters.

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#1 - Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:41 AM EST

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Brian White

Bah. There was just a news report that a newspaper found the identity of 2600 CIA agents with some online sleuthing. That doesn't mean they're not undercover.

Also, while she walked through the door, does that mean that people outside of the agency knew she was an agent? She could have been a secretary. I worked as a contractor at the State Department. There were vastly more support personnel there than diplomats. Same at the CIA I'd imagine.

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#2 - Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:51 PM EST

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