In fact, she hadn't been on an assignment in over 5 years so the point is mute.
Horse hockey. It's still classified and the compromise eliminates her for any future assignments as a covert agent. In case you hadn't noticed, the Agency has a difficult time getting covert agents.
The CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates was compromised. And that likely compromises any other covert agents that were working out of that company.
Every intelligence agency in the world has run Valerie Plame [if they're worth their salt], Brewster-Jennings and any employee for Brewster-Jennings through their data bases. Any contacts to Valerie Plame, Brewster-Jennings or their employees will be evaluated for damage assessment; those sources may be compromised.
Brewster Jennings & Associates
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Brewster Jennings & Associates was a company set up by the United States CIA as a front for its operations. One of its former employees was CIA-analyst Valerie Plame who later had her cover blown by Robert Novak (based on information received from a member of the Bush administration) in an interview on CNN in which he stated "Wilson's wife, the CIA employee, gave $1,000 to Gore and she listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings & Associates. There is no such firm, I'm convinced.", though it later turned out that BJ&A did exist for all intents and purposes, listed on the Dun & Bradstreet database of company names.
The group was intended to infiltrate ties between groups involved in smuggling nuclear weapons and the material to create them, to countries such as Israel and Pakistan.
Conservatives will hold Congressional hearings and prosecute Deutsch for mis-handling classified documents, but when it comes to compromising sources and methods by the Administration [or in a separate incident Orin Hatch] they don't care.
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