please check out this thread....has this been debunked

[pepperbear]

or is this the debunker?

http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17446

Wilson "admits" wife not a covert agent

BLITZER: But the other argument that's been made against you is that you've sought to capitalize on this extravaganza, having that photo shoot with your wife, who was a clandestine officer of the CIA, and that you've tried to enrich yourself writing this book and all of that.

What do you make of those accusations, which are serious accusations, as you know, that have been leveled against you.

WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.

BLITZER: But she hadn't been a clandestine officer for some time before that?

WILSON: That's not anything that I can talk about. And, indeed, I'll go back to what I said earlier, the CIA believed that a possible crime had been committed, and that's why they referred it to the Justice Department. She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in Vanity Fair appeared. And I have every right to have the American public know who I am and not to have myself defined by those who would write the sorts of things that are coming out, being spewed out of the mouths of the RNC...

[swag]

1. Talk about misconstruing.

What Wilson is saying is that as soon as Novak blew her cover, she ceased to be covert.

Fucking duh.

[Nickster]

2. Usual taking a comment out of context and "using" it as proof. Amb Wilson

was saying that once Novak outed her, she at that point had her cover blown.

[LSK]

3. meaning once her cover was blown, theres nothing left to hide

Wilson wrote the book and everything else AFTER her cover was blown.

[pepperbear]

4. thanks guys! leave it to freeper. n/t

[Goblinmonger]

5. Triple jinx! n/t

[BOSSHOG]

6. I recall that was debunked

Merely by the semantics and proving that English is the hardest language on the earth.

In other words: the day novak exposed her identity she was no longer clandestine.

Wilson admitted no such thing and hannity continues to make a living on the ignorant trash which populate our country.

[walldude]

7. Man they just love to twist his words, but he should have been a

bit more clear. "My wife ceased to be clandestine when Bob Novak blew her identity." The Vanity Fair article came after the outing. The damage to National Security was so severe that they can't even tell you how bad it was. Brewster Jennings, where Plame worked was a 20 year undercover operation that was blown to get revenge on a guy for telling the truth. We will probably never know the extent of the damage.

[MGKrebs]

9. It's just so sad that people would have to be so careful

with their words that there could not be any misrepresentation no matter how they are parsed. In fact, it's probably impossible. It is almost unbearable that some people (like Hannity) would purposely misrepresent these words with such an important issue. He is deliberately deceiving his listeners to further a political agenda. This is very much the reason why there aren't enough people upset about this administration to effect a change. The water is sufficiently muddied to create enough doubt (unjustified as it may be) to keep people from getting too pissed off. Hannity and his rat pack are willing to sacrifice our justice system, much of our Constitution, and many American lives to try to prevent Republican electoral losses. EVEN if they believe that Dem wins are disastrous (which I am sure they do), at some point you would think they have to look up and realize that they are destroying the very principles they claim to defend.

[walldude]

11. Pathetic isn't it? I mean the woman is working to keep nukes

out of the hands of terrorists, the very thing the righties are trying to scare us with, then they feign ignorance and pretend one thing has nothing to do with the other.

[Dr. Death]

14. Agreed, but as we've also seen,

if people are so careful that their words cannot be misconstrued, Hannity and his ilk will simply make up statements.

So you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

[90-percent]

10. extent of the damage

The extent of the damage equals how many moles working with Brewster Jennings got murdered by powerful people not happy with being spied upon.

I've seen some speculation that maybe approx 10 folks trying to help the USA got killed as a result of Valerie Wilson's outing by Novak?

And also the real number of dead courtesy of Bob Novak is classified and may never be known!

-85% jimmy

[TheWraith]

8. Another alternative interpretation

I'm not sure which is the correct one, since I can't recall how/if he clarified it. But his remarks could also be interpreted as meaning that she wasn't specifically undercover at the time she was outed, meaning she wasn't on assignment in a foreign country.

[mmonk]

12. She was NOC. Once her cover was blown, she can never be again.

http://www.answers.com/topic/valerie-plame

All the ammo you need.

[NoGOPZone]

13. debunked many times

From Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference announcing the indictment of Libby.

Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community.

Valerie Wilson's friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life.

FITZGERALD: The fact that she was a CIA officer was not well- known, for her protection or for the benefit of all us. It's important that a CIA officer's identity be protected, that it be protected not just for the officer, but for the nation's security.

Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003. The first sign of that cover being blown was when Mr. Novak published a column on July 14th, 2003.