Pipe up the band [1]!
The two voices on the tape are Bob Woodward and Richard Armitage. Listen [2] to hear how Valarie Plame was outed.
Relevent transcript:
2:22 ARMITAGE: Yeah. And I know [ ] Joe Wilson’s
2:23 been calling everybody. He’s pissed off because he was
2:24 designated as a low-level guy, went out to look at it. So,
2:25 he’s all pissed off.
More: A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere [3]; Curt, Flopping Aces [4],
So calling a retired fourth rate diplomat a low-level guy gets a CIA employee revealed. Vanity, thy name is Joe Wilson.
Recall:
WASHINGTON (CNN [5]) — Retired career diplomat Joseph Wilson said Sunday that he would to love to see whoever blew the cover on his wife as a CIA operative “frog-marched out of the White House.”
Wilson also said that he and his wife are concerned about their personal security because of the leak.
Outing his own wife was not a crime. However it should make an interesting rebutal to the Wilson’s civil lawsuit [6]. I’d think it would make the basis for slander action by Karl Rove against Joe Wilson.
(H/T Washington Post March: Wikipedia [7] )