re: #630 Olsonist

The specific instance was that she still had NOC status in 2003 while serving in DC. With her cover blown:

(1) it blew her NOC cover
(2) she could never serve covert again
(3) it blew her cover organizations
(4) it endangered every contact she ever had undercover or NOC.

All this for political payback. Against her husband.

Nice.

Gah. For the third time, it was not illegal. Let me quote Fitzpatrick himself.

In order to establish a violation of Title 50, United States Code, Section 421 [the Intelligence Identities Protection Act], it would be necessary to establish that Libby knew or believed that Plame was a person whose identity the CIA was making specific efforts to conceal and who had carried out covert work overseas within the last 5 years. To date, we have no direct evidence that Libby knew or believed that Wilson’s wife was engaged in covert work.

I AM NOT SAYING IT WAS OK. Why are you having such a rough time separating “OK” from “illegal”?

The discussion is about the latter, not the former.