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To: John Carragher who wrote (125768)	7/18/2005 9:41:35 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793716

"your not undercover when you get into your car in the morning and drive into cia headquarters. I find it confusing if cia says she was undercover status? If she was undercover the least the cia could have set her up working for some consulting firm let the thousands of them in Washington." Now I know why the term is familiar. I posted the story. A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an "undercover agent," saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee. "She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat," Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990, told The Washington Times. "Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this. A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren't minding the store here. . . . The agency never changed her cover status." Mr. Rustmann, who spent 20 of his 24 years in the agency under "nonofficial cover"--also known as a NOC, the same status as the wife of Mr. Wilson--also said that she worked under extremely light cover. In addition, Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment, married Mr. Wilson and had twins, USA Today reported yesterday. In an interview with CNN yesterday, Wilson acknowledged, "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity," though he refused to say anything about her career before that day. As we noted yesterday, though, the source for that USA Today report was none other than Wilson himself, in his book, which apparently no one bothered to read until now. Message 21512104 I was thinking about this while working yesterday. Here is my analysis: Boy meets spy. Boy and spy discover they are both partisan Democrats. Boy and spy fall in love. They get married. Spy wants to be married to a more important man, so she recommends him for a diplomatic mission. (Conveniently it is a great one for a partisan Democrat to score points with the left.) Spy has kids and retires from spying. Agency never changes status to reflect new status. Spy and boy cook up scheme to use his mission results to curry favor with Democrat party. They dream of becoming political big wigs. Who knows, maybe there will be a high elected ofice at the end of the rainbow. Democrats and their media allies sign on to his story. (It is easier to con a person into believing what they want to believe.) Truth gets exposed. Democrats cannot believe how clumsily stupid boy is; dump him. Ex-spy cannot accept responsibility for her bragging about her working for the spy agency to everyone who would listen. Ex-spy needs a scape goat to blame for her problem. Boy cannot accept responsibility for being careless... The media try to create the scape goat for the banal and careless Plame and Wilson.