The outing of Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife as an undercover CIA agent (if that is what she was) would be contemptuous not to say felonious. As former President Bush said in 1999 of those who expose intelligence agents, they are “the most insidious of traitors.” We fully agree…even if the actors may not have appreciated the nature of their conduct.
Robert F. Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia,…said the identity of Mrs. Plame in the Novak column appeared to be the reporter’s attempt to explain why Mr. Wilson was sent to Niger, not to reveal her role as an undercover CIA officer. “It does not strike me as going to the core what this law was intended to prevent,” he said.