[lbo-talk] Plame Game links

[Michael Pollak]

Even though Plame's most recent incarnation was as an analyst, it seems
that in her former life she was a NOC, i.e., a deep undercover operative.
That was why she was kept more undercover than seems necessary given her
recent duties as analyst: it was to keep people from uncovering her
previous activities and following the links to other agents who are still
active.  This makes the offense of uncovering her much more grave.  And it
also makes it plausible that someone might have made a huge mistake here
in part because they were ignorant of her former life.

Explaining various levels of cover (NOC is short for "non-official cover",
i.e., a job that doesn't provide diplomatic immunity if you get caught,
like embassy jobs do): http://slate.msn.com/id/2089062/

Report that Plame had such an uncover career that could now be uncovered
in retrospect, endangering others:  http://www.hillnews.com/marshall/073003.aspx

Lastly, surprisingly interesting commentary one where the Plame thing
might have come from from Chris Suellentrop, a man who during the war
usually made my skin crawl within two sentences:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089196/

Michael