WASHINGTON (AP) - "Valerie Plame, the CIA operative at the heart of a political scandal, told Congress Friday that senior officials at the White House and State Department "carelessly and recklessly" blew her cover to discredit her diplomat-husband.
Plame, whose 2003 outing triggered a federal investigation, said she always knew her identity could be discovered by foreign governments.
"It was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones who destroyed my cover," she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
"If our government cannot even protect my identity, future foreign agents who might consider working with the Central Intelligence Agency and providing needed intelligence would think twice," Plame said in response to a question."
Richard Armitage was the one who "leaked" the name of this pencil-pusher, after her husband gave numerous accounts of who she was to various news organizations. Notice that nowhere does she mention this, instead blaming the Bush Administration for not being careful enough with the names of secretary's who were being outed at cocktail parties in D.C. as the butt of many an off color joke. All we can do is hope that super-secret mailroom boys don't suffer the same fate.
And oh, one other thing; the picture is of Armitage, not the similarly unattractive Plame.
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