On Jul 9, 5:55?pm, jps wrote:
Parse this instead, it's far more useful:

WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie
Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first
time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald,
indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July
2003.

The summary is part of an attachment to Fitzgerald's memorandum to the
court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice
President Cheney's former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for
obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

The nature of Plame's CIA employment never came up in Libby's perjury
and obstruction of justice trial.

Undercover travel
The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time
that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14,
2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was
taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to
the United States."

Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations
and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January
2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD,
Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official
business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more
than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in
true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether
official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the
CIA."

One of the basic fundamentals of liberalism is inclusion.

Included in the group of folks who won't (quite) always be right have
to be ourselves and fellow liberals. Included in the group of folks
who won't (quite) always be wrong have to be our esteemed friends with
a more conservative perspective. It is just such a willingness to be
frank, self critical, inclusive, and willing to accept the opposition
as worthy individuals of merit and intelligence (rather than "enemies
of the state") that marks an important difference between liberal
ideology and the politics of hate, blame, and recrimination preached
by the Limbaughs, Hannitys, Savages, etc of the world.

We're down to almost nobody trying to hijack threads for political
purposes any more, so why be the sole exception?

Relax, go boating, get a bit more liberal. :-)