No Easy Answers

OCR Job - Skipping Exhibit B, as it is the transcript of Ms. Wilson's testimony at Waxman's hearing, and the text is available elsewhere.

My take, given the weak substance that Special Counsel has proffered as representing evidence of meeting the "covert" elements of IIPA, is that Ms. Wilson was -NOT- covert under the IIPA. Fitzgerald could have kept the question open by not proffering evidence, but this proffer shows the weakness of the "Plame was covert under the IIPA" position.

Making the assertion, "Plame was in fact covert under the IIPA," strikes me as a cheap and unnecessary shot - much as the use of "position was classified" being used as a smoke-screen to inflate the gravity of the Plame disclosure, and fingering Libby as "the first leaker." Neither contention is required to support the indictment, and neither contention was made in the indictment.

5/25/2007 349 ENTERED IN ERROR.....SENTENCING MEMORANDUM by USA as to I. LEWIS LIBBY (Bonamici, Debra) Modified on 5/29/2007 (hsj, ). (Entered: 05/25/2007)

05/25/2007 350 ENTERED IN ERROR.....SENTENCING MEMORANDUM by USA as to I. LEWIS LIBBY (Bonamici, Debra) Modified on 5/29/2007 (hsj, ). (Entered: 05/25/2007)

05/25/2007 NOTICE OF CORRECTED DOCKET ENTRY: ... Document Nos. 349, 350 were refiled by the Clerk because document should have been filed as one document. Counsel instructed not to refiled said pleading. (hsj, ) (Entered: 05/29/2007)

05/25/2007 351 MEMORANDUM of Law in Support of its Proposed Sentencing Guidelines Calculations by USA as to I. LEWIS LIBBY. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A# 2 Exhibit B)(hsj, ) (Entered: 05/29/2007)

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EXHIBIT A




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UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF VALERIE WILSON'S
CIA EMPLOYMENT AND COVER HISTORY


     The information in this document comes from records
maintained in Privacy Act systems of records and therefore is
protected under The Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C Sec. 552a.

     On 1 January 2002, Valerie Wilson was working for the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an operations officer in
the Directorate of Operations (DO). She was assigned to the
Counterproliferation Division (CPD) at CIA Headquarters, where
she served as the chief of a CPD component which responsibility
for weapons proliferation issues related to Iraq.

     While assigned to CPD, Ms. Wilson engaged in temporary duty
(TDY) travel overseas on official business.  She traveled at
least seven times to more than ten countries.  When traveling
overseas, Ms. Wilson always traveled under a cover identity--
sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias--but always using
cover--whether official or non-official cover (NOC)--with no
ostensible relationship to the CIA.

     At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the
media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship which the CIA on
14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the
CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence
relationship to the United States.




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     In August 2003, Ms. Wilson was assigned to a senior
personnel position in CPD, where she supervised staffing,
recruiting, and training for CPD. she had been selected for
this position prior to the leak.

     As a result of the leak and subsequent media reporting of
Ms. Wilson's relationship with the CIA, in December 2003 the CIA
lifted Ms. Wilson's cover effective 14 December 2003, and then
in February 2004 the CIA rolled back her cover effective
14 July 2003, the date of the leak.

     In September 2004, Ms. Wilson requested and received
permission co be placed on leave without pay for personal
reasons.  She returned co duty in August 2005, when she became
the chief of operations of a CPD component with responsibility
for proliferation issues.

     In October 2005, the CIA determined, in its discretion,
that the public interest in allowing the criminal prosecution to
proceed outweighed the damage to national security that might
reasonably be expected from the official disclosure of Ms.
Wilson's employment and cover status.  Accordingly, the CIA
lifted and rolled back Ms. Wilson's cover effective 1 January
2002 and declassified the fact of her CIA employment and cover
status from that date forward.

     This determination means that the CIA declassified and now
publicly acknowledges the previously classified fact that

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Ms. Wilson was a CIA employee from 1 January 2002 forward and
the previously classified fact that she was a covert CIA
employee during this period.  This determination does not mean
that the CIA acknowledges any other period of employment, if
any, nor does it declassify the nature and details of
Ms. Wilson's cover, the cover methods employed by the CIA to
protect Ms. Wilson or other covert CIA employees, or the fact,
nature, and details of Ms. Wilson's classified intelligence
activities as a CIA employee at any time during her employment.

     Valerie Wilson resigned from the CIA on 9 December 2005.

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EXHIBIT B

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posted by cboldt  # 5/27/2007 06:07:00 PM