Valerie Wilson Retires

Valerie Wilson is no longer an employee of the CIA.

Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose exposure led to a criminal investigation of the Bush White House, spent her last day at the spy agency Friday.

Neither the agency nor Plame’s husband would confirm her departure, but two people who have known Plame for a number of years confirmed she was leaving.

Thanks Libby, Rove, et al. You finally got your way. Fortunately, she stayed long enough to get her richly deserved pension.

Larry Johnson got his shots in in the AP story:

Plame has been cast by Bush administration defenders as “just a desk jockey at the CIA, someone who wasn’t really undercover and a manipulative Mata Hari who aspired to bring down the Bush administration. All of that is false,” said former CIA officer Larry Johnson, a friend of Plame. “At the end of the day, she was betrayed by her own government and they show no signs of remorse.”

Larry never sleeps.

6 Comments

Kidspeak on December 9, 2005 at 9:57 pm

How many good public servants has this administration hounded into retirement and resignation?

I hope some day we will know the truth about why Valerie Plame Wilson was betrayed by her own leaders.

Janet Strange on December 9, 2005 at 10:05 pm

I’m on the Union of Concerned Scientists mailing list and got this one today:

As part of our effort to monitor the effects of political interference with science on the capacity of federal scientific agencies, the UCS Scientific Integrity Program is looking for individual scientists who have left federal service–or are considering doing so–because of political interference or pressure.

If you are one of these scientists–or if you know someone who is–please forward the information you know to rsi@ucsusa.org. Although email submissions are preferred, if you would rather not to put anything in writing, you may call me at 202.331.5452.

Time Waits for no Woman on December 9, 2005 at 11:14 pm

can enjoy life a little now and get another job where she can use her talents. She was treated very, very badly.

As to Larry, he is great! I hope that he gets some sleep sometime.

Meteor Blades on December 10, 2005 at 12:34 am

…to congressional Democrats in July of 2003 put to rest for objective observers the notion that Plame wasn’t covert:

Although Val started off with official cover, she later joined a select group of intelligence officers a few years later when she became a NOC, i.e. a Non-Official Cover officer. That meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. She was using cover, which we now know because of the leak to Robert Novak, of the consulting firm Brewster-Jennings. When she traveled overseas she did not use or have an official passport. If she had been caught engaged in espionage activities while traveling overseas without the black passport she could have been executed. We must put to bed the lie that she was not undercover. For starters, if she had not been undercover then the CIA would not have referred the matter to the Justice Department.

This, however, did not stop rightwingers like Bill Kristol and Rush Limbaugh and their sponges in the megamedia from continuing to say for months (some still say so) that Plame wasn’t covert.

Cake or Death on December 10, 2005 at 12:39 am

What can I say honestly? These bastards, their “tactics”….arrrggggghhhh!!!

I hope that Mrs. Wilson can get some peace and quiet soon. Very soon.

alohaleezy on December 10, 2005 at 8:14 am

Larry Johnson, in my book is one hell of a patriot. He has seen this cabal destroy not only Val’s life but the many that were involved with her cover company. We still haven’t heard of an assesment from the CIA of possible damage in the field. These war criminals that continue to commit crimes against humanity will eventually be brought down.

Thank you Larry for continuing the fight and to Val and Joe Wilson I wish you peace to enjoy your children.

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