28 Facts About Plame affair

Plame affair was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer in 2003.

In 2002, Plame wrote a memo to her superiors in which she expressed hesitation in recommending her husband, former diplomat Joseph C Wilson, to the CIA for a mission to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had arranged to purchase and import uranium from the country, but stated that he "may be in a position to assist".

Plame affair reported that the Senate report stated that Wilson's report actually bolstered, rather than debunked, intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq.

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame affair, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.

Plame affair has emphatically said that had he understood that she was any sort of secret agent, he would never have named her.

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Plame affair said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counter-proliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife.

Plame affair asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad.

Plame affair never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered.

In that column, Novak claims to have learned Mrs Wilson's maiden name "Valerie Plame affair" from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who In America, though it was her CIA status rather than her maiden name which was a secret.

On March 17,2007, Plame affair testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Plame affair was asked how she learned of Novak's reference to her in his column.

Plame affair couldn't tell Novak that Valerie Wilson was undercover.

Plame affair turned over his calendars, datebooks and even his wife's computer in the course of the inquiry, those associates said.

Plame affair resigned in November 2004, but remained a subject of the inquiry until [February 2006] when the prosecutor advised him in a letter that he would not be charged.

Plame affair made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.

The only reason I knew a "Mrs Wilson", not "Mrs Plame affair", worked at the agency was because I saw it in a memo.

On July 2,2005, Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove spoke to Time reporter Matt Cooper "three or four days" before Plame affair's identity was first revealed in print by commentator Robert Novak.

Plame affair told prosecutors that Time reporter Viveca Novak had told him prior to Rove's first grand jury appearance that she had heard from colleagues at Time that Rove was one of the sources for Cooper's story about Plame.

Libby testified to the federal grand jury that when Russert purportedly told him about Plame affair, he had absolutely no memory of having heard the information earlier from anyone else, including Cheney, and was thus "taken aback" when Russert told him.

Plame affair sent Libby off to [meet with former New York Times reporter] Judith Miller at the St Regis Hotel.

Plame affair cannot recall discussing it or any of its contents with anyone at the time it was published.

Plame affair did not pay any particular attention to Novak's disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson, and he does not know how Novak might have received such information.

Plame affair emphasized it did not appear to him to be an important or even relevant fact in the Joe Wilson controversy.

Days after Novak's initial column appeared, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine published Plame affair's name, citing unnamed government officials as sources.

Plame affair was asked whether the White House conducted any internal investigation, as is required by Executive Order 12958.

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Novak reported that Hayden "did not answer whether Plame affair was covert under the terms of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act" when pressed by Hoekstra.

Henry Waxman to say Plame affair had been a "covert" CIA employee, as he claimed Hayden did, but only that she was "undercover".

Plame affair added he now sees no difference between "covert" and "undercover".