How About Them Apples Vicky Toensing? Wilson WAS A Covert Officer - by: Larry C. Johnson

How About Them Apples Vicky Toensing?
by
Larry C Johnson

Victoria Toensing, Cliff May, Byron York and the other rightwing apologists who have long insisted that Valerie Plame Wilson was not undercover have some "splaining" to do. Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's latest filing in the Scooter Libby case leaves no doubt about Valerie Wilson's status--she was covert and undercover and served overseas. Thanks to a heads up from McClatchy's Jonathan Landay, followed in short order by a note from John Amato at Crooks and Liars, I got my hands on the Fitzgerald filing. Man, the rightwing stooges are getting their collective asses handed to them on all fronts (e.g., a bird shits on Bush, Wolfowitz gets bounced from the World Bank, and rightwing bloggers, Flopping Aces and Charles Johnson in particular, were exposed making fraudulent claims). As Jackie Gleason used to say, "how sweet it is!"

Fitz makes the following points:


1. Valerie Wilson was an operations officer working in the Counter Proliferation Division (CPD) of the Directorate of Operations and headed a unit that covered weapons proliferation issues concerning Iraq.

2. While in CPD Valerie traveled overseas seven times to more than ten countries always, repeat always, undercover.

3. Valerie was a covert officer on 14 July 2003, when Novak identified her as a CIA employee.

4. The CIA was taking "affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."

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more at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/how_about_them_.html
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/fitz_filing_declaring_val_was_undercover.pdf

by saying it was not news and that everyone knew she was covert. Even if that is true, you can not argue with a cop who stops you and claim everyone else was speeding and so you should not get a ticket. What you did was still illegal.

Also if everyone DID know, that only means we need stricter rules and punishments in place to protect the people who serve our country. By outing Valerie Plame this administration has made us much less safe since these were the people on the war front actually protecting us from the real WMD's.

did they GO to DOJ? Because a COVERT AGENT got outed!!!! That was the basis for the complaint.