Fitzgerald’s case is so bad that even the LA Times is starting to catch on to it. Richard B. Schmitt writes CIA “secrecy rules are sometimes ignored [1]:”
But last week, as former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby went on trial in connection with the leak, it appeared that neither the CIA nor some other intelligence community insiders were all that tight-lipped about such supposedly sensitive matters.
When it came to talking to outsiders, the agent’s identity was often treated as not much more than water-cooler dishing or cocktail party chatter.
Of course Schmitt is still taking the position that Plame was an agent who was in the position to be exposed. Plame covert career was already over She had been exposed the traitor Aldridge Ames.