CIA agent confirms Wilson's Wife was Undercover agent.
"Jim Marcinkowski, an ex-CIA officer who called Plame the best shot in their class with an AK-47 rifle, told Time magazine her career as an undercover operative was over.
"She will no longer be safe traveling overseas," said Marcinkowski, who trained with Plame at Camp Peary, the Virginia school for CIA recruits. "I liken that to the knee-capping of an athlete."
With pressure mounting for answers over the leak, Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, said it was up to the president to get to the bottom of the story.
"The president should be asking some pretty tough questions, if he's not already," Hagel said on CBS. "My guess is that he is asking some tough questions. He needs to get a hold of this himself, call his chief of staff in, his national security adviser, the vice president and say 'OK, what do we have here? This is serious, I want it fixed."'
Wilson's wife's cover was blown in mid-July by syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who reiterated on Sunday he would not reveal his source for the story. |
