Delay - Plame wasn't Covert Agent Because She Drove Back and Forth To Langley
My transcript follows, paraphrased but pretty much verbatim, between Shepard Smith and Tom Delay on Studio B. However, the funniest explanation (after blaming the media, Joe Wilson, the Democrats and others) was that Valerie Plame wasn't a covert agent because she drove in and out of Langley.
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SS: If there were a leak of this kind, hypothetically speaking, if someone leaked the name of a CIA operative, the president said before that if someone in his White House did that, that person should be fired. And that's......(words overtalked by Delay)
TD: If they broke the law. (No, no, no, again the president said what Smith said - a leaker in the White House) The law specifically says that the CIA operative, they're trained to keep them covert. That means usually they're overseas (it does?), they're not working out of Langley (they're not?) driving in and out of the gate, they are truly undercover, and you leak it, you're breaking the law. That wasn't the case. That wasn't the case here. Ms. Plame was working at Langley, coming and going quite obvious she was working for the CIA and this...uh...er..this...there may be other's who leaked...uh...we'll find out when the investigation is over.
SS: Congressman, (some discussion about the weather) good to see you.
TD: Thank you, Shepard.
SS: Alright.http://www.newshounds.us/2005/07/13/delay_plame_wasnt_covert_agent_because_she_drove_back_and_forth_to_langley.php This exchange occurs at the end of the transcript