Has Valerie Plame's status as an CIA Agent been declassified?

[Toots]

All the right wingers seem to have all the details about her job. How did they get those details? How do they know she only had a desk job? seems to me that is classified information and the one thing the Bush* Administration does is classify everything. I don't think they declassify much at all so am wondering if this has in fact been declassified.

[rodeodance]

1. Repugs are questioning whether or not she is a covert cia operator.

[maddezmom]

2. the memo Ari read on AF1 said Valerie was a CIA agent

The memo, prepared by the State Department on July 7, 2003, informed top administration officials that the wife of ex-diplomat and Bush critic Joseph Wilson was a CIA agent. Seven days later, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was publicly identified as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

On the same day the memo was prepared, White House phone logs show Novak placed a call to White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, according to lawyers familiar with the case and a witness who has testified before the grand jury. Those people say it isn't clear whether Fleischer returned the call, and Fleischer has refused to comment.

The Novak call may loom large in the investigation because Fleischer was among a group of administration officials who left Washington later that day on a presidential trip to Africa. On the flight to Africa, Fleischer was seen perusing the State Department memo on Wilson and his wife, according to a former administration official who was also on the trip.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=awaBbp4fMlgg

[TahitiNut]

6. "according to a former administration official who was also on the trip"

This attribution is interesting. Who's testified (or leaked) on this and how does the media know this was what they said?

One of the major disinformation themes embedded in all the media 'reporting' on this story is the illogical punditry regarding the legality or illegality of leaking Plame's identity. First off, they seem to be peddling the idea that the whole question rests on a single statute: the IIPA. The fallacious 'logic' they constantly present is that if it's not illegal according to the terms of the IIPA, then it wasn't illegal at all. NOTHING could be further from the truth. The IIPA isn't the only federal law regarding disclosure of classified information. Not by a long shot. The media seems to be trying too hard to say that's the only relevant statute. On top of this, the media seems to be trying to hard to adjudicate the case on the basis of this stature in favor of anyone, often Rove, who may have disclosed that information... always ignoring the fact that the CIA conducted a 2-month internal investigation before formally requesting the Justice Department pursue a prosecution of the leak. It's beyond reason to believe the CIA wasn't able to both make a case for prosecution and make a case that identified leakers and confirmed that the disclosure was unlawful. Clearly, the CIA provided more than adequate (classified!) information to Fitzgerald that justifies a prosecution. I'm betting the CIA's internal investigation was far more revelatory than anyone knows.

[napi21]

3. Not that I know of. I read somewhere on Du in the past few says,

that just because informaiton is leaked doesn't mean the CIA has declassified it.

A lot of what yu are reading these days is speculation and assumption. The fact that some people have seen Valerie go to work at the CIA and she sits at a desk, the Pubs are assuming she "has a desk job".

I've HEARD them on the diff. cable shows. When they are asked "How do you KNOW she has a desk job?" Their response is "Well people see her driving to work, and going in the building everyday!"

[uppityperson]

5. I have a desk job, am a teacher,automechanic, store clerk,doctor

I've been seen going in those buildings every day sometimes.

[sam sarrha]

4. her cover was working at a desk..l, her job was finding WMDs..

Chaney didn't want her to find his involvement in Nuclear technology distribution thru Halliburton.. and the profiteering.