CIA Threatens Valerie Plame's Book - Won't Let Her Mention She Worked For CIA

[kpete]

CIA won't let outed agent say she was in CIA

RAW STORY
Published: Sunday January 7, 2007

A CIA panel has told former officer Valerie Plame she can't write about her undercover work for the agency, a position that may threaten a lucrative book project with her publisher, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports in Monday editions of the magazine, according to a release from Newsweek.

Plame's outing as a CIA officer in July 2003 triggered a criminal probe that culminates next week when Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby goes on trial for perjury and obstruction.

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But in what could be a precursor to a separate legal battle, Plame recently hired a lawyer to challenge the CIA Publications Review Board, which must clear writings by former employees. The panel refused Plame permission to even mention that she worked for the CIA because she served as a "nonofficial cover" officer (or NOC) posing as a private businesswoman, according to an adviser to Plame, who asked not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. "She believes this will effectively gut the book," said the adviser. Larry Johnson, a former colleague, said the agency's action seems punitive, given that other ex-CIA undercover officers have published books. But even Plame's friends acknowledge that few NOCs have done so. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said the panel was still having "ongoing" talks with Plame to resolve the dispute. "The sole yardstick," he said, is that books "contain no classified information." A spokesman for Simon & Schuster, Plame's publisher, declined to comment.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/CIA_wont_let_outed_agent_say_0107.html

[babylonsister]

1. She can't mention it but the wh operatives can spew that info all

over the place? I don't think that's going to sit too well.

[madeline_con]

2. But wait....

I thought she just had a "desk job". :sarcasm:

[no_hypocrisy]

3. OK, so Bob Novak can write that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA,

but she can't. Got it.

In the tradition of the novel Hopscotch, I hope she reveals some really horrifying facts about how the CIA does business.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. But everybody knew she was in the CIA

before the WH even said anything, so what's the big deal? :shrug:

[chelsea0011]

5. Uhmmmm. Isn't this a moot issue by now?

[Generator]

6. This is the epitome of the irony of our times

Surreal life, politics.

[Spazito]

7. Geez, this is irony with a capital "I"....

The whole WH and rabid right-wing cabal's justification against the Fitzgerald investigation into the outing of Plame was that she was NOT NOC but merely a staffer at the CIA yet the CIA is not allowing her to write about her employment at the CIA BECAUSE she was a NOC.

What a pile of horse-shit, imo. This action by the CIA is a blatant move by the WH to stop the truth from coming out.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Isn't this news good for the two lawsuits coming up? They don't

have to waste time with witnesses trying to say she was not an undercover operative?

I bet I know one or two who would still be willing to testify that she wasn't - Victoria Toensing and Joe DeGenova. After all, they told us many times on tv that she wasn't. They are so both in the know that they must know more than anyone else, therefore are qualified to be witnesses that she wasn't undercover. Sarcasm a plenty.

[shadowknows69]

9. Superman fans say it with me

VIVE LE BIZARRO WORLD!!!

[Peace Patriot]

10. She ought to title the book, "Alice in Wonderland" (or "Through the Looking

Glass").

Only Lewis Carrol is adequate to describe this situation. And what a brilliant man he was, having the Red Queen forcing her underlings to paint all the white roses red.

There it is. "Alice in Bushworld," by Anonymous.

[Bluebear]

11. Now *that* is rich. nt

[SoCalDem]

12. She should take the HAL approach.

Supposedly, as the myth goes, when "2001:A Space Odyssey" was being made, they wanted to use IBM computer logos, but IBM said no, so they went "one letter off" and came up with HAL :)

Valerie just may have worked for the VOS..(keyboard version..claim typo "glitch".)
or DJB ...

EDITED to add the non typo letters

[rpgamerd00d]

13. Would it be the DHB ?

[SoCalDem]

14. I was looking at my computer keyboard.. She could claim a "typo"

yours is the more accurate one :)
Department of (I'm having a brain-fade day here)

[rpgamerd00d]

15. Department of Homeland Bureaucracy

:)