Originally posted by k2cok
Ambassador Joseph Wilson revealed on August 29 the identity of the leaker (to the Washington Post) that Wilson’s wife is a CIA agent of 26 years.
Her team was tasked with WMD proliferation issues.
As a consequence of this leak, her entire team of overseas assets were liquidated. (70 agents)
The leaker, it turns out was Karl H. Rove, White House advisor.
Looks like the Bush team is following in Clintons foot steps, except they are not "downsizing" the intelligence apparatus by firing people.
They just get them killed. 
k2cok it's even worse than most think. They flew them to Jenin at midnight in black helicopters and killed them by force-feeding them 2.5 lbs. of Pop-Rocks each and then forcing 2 l. of Coca-Cola down their throats. Oh, the humanity!
There's 2 options here:
1. You made this up yourself. In that case, please take a hammer and hit yourself in the head a couple of times - you deserve it.
2. You actually read this somewhere. Please tell me where so I can go make millions by selling the readers of that source 'authentic worn-by-David Duchovny dirty underwear' (Aha! I'll never have to do laundry again!) and 'real rocks from faked moon landing set'.
Here's a reality check - She could not have been 'blown' or 'outed' by anyone because She's an analyst and was not working under any type of cover. Her Husband listed her name and her employer (CIA) on his own website. The only reason the CIA asked Novak to not mention her name is because it's SOP to never officially verify any type of data - even nonclassified data - unless there's a good reason from the intelligence community's POV (like talking about what a stud Mikey Spann was at his memorial service).
Furthermore - the IDs of agents (as opposed to analysts) working 'under a cover' and the 'nature' of *any* 'cover' are all closely guarded secrets. The President himself is not aware of them due to 'need to know' restrictions. The President may be briefed with intelligence developed by agents working under a cover in very, very dangerous circumstances - but before that intelligence reaches the President himself it is 'sanitized' to 'protect sources and methods'. In other words, even the President is told "Don't ask how we know this, but we know it's true". In general, the ID and cover details of an agent are only known to the person directly responsible for the operation(s) the agent is involved in. A case officer could not be ordered by the DO to reveal the 'current' 'cover' of an agent in the field. The DO might already know, but his access to the information could be limited by the 'need to know' clause just like the President's.
About the only time you will ever have someone 'working for the CIA and their Husband has no idea' is when you have a foreign National working 'in place' (i.e. still at the HQ for the Strategic Rocket Forces) as an agent for the CIA, etc. That is obviously not the case here. The Spouses and Family and close friends of covert operatives know that they work for the CIA, DIA, M.I. 5, M.I. 6, AH2 development team, etc. They just don't know what they are doing or where they are doing it at any given time.
Rogwar could probably add some more, but he'd have to kill you all.
Mike/wulfie
