Today's Obligatory Liberal Blog Post

I would not be the rock-solid liberal blogger that I am without mentioning that Valerie Plame was covert.

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 with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States.

Not that this fact will disrupt the insaneosphere's shriekings that "she had a desk job!" Reality has a well-known liberal bias and all that.

Scooter Libby should get the full penalty of the law for lying about outing a covert CIA agent working on WMD in a time of war. He obstructed an investigation into a very serious crime. And he certainly delivered information on Plame to Judy Miller and Matt Cooper and Tim Russert. He's a convicted criminal and a shame to this nation.