Valerie Plame

I'm not saying what Scooter Libby or Dick Cheney did was right when they allegedly "outed" this woman as a secret agent for the CIA. I don't know who did what. That's why there's an investigation and in the end, that's for the courts to decide.

What I will take issue with is the media calling her a secret agent, or CIA operative, undercover operations officer or whatever. The woman is and was a desk jockey in Washinton D.C. The only reason her husband was sent to Niger by the CIA was because she lobbied to get him there. He was "between jobs", having recently been "let go" by the State department. It was her way of getting the guy out of his pajamas, out of the house, stem his All My Children addiction, and bring in a little income (apparently because he found the job as the fry machine operator at Burger King too demeaning for him). The closest she ever got to being undercover was in bed on a cold night. Anybody could have "exposed" her. All you had to do was follow her home from the office and look the address up on the internet to see who lived there. She wasn't "recruited". She took a civil service exam and scored high enough to be a government paperweight. She's as close to being 007 as I am to being Tiger Woods. No wait. That's a lie. I'm far closer to being Tiger Woods.