According to this, Plame's employment was not at all a closely held secret, not by her, and not by her husband. Is it true that both of them had told plenty of people that she worked for the CIA? Perhaps. I'm reluctant to trust the word of WorldNetDaily, but Andrea Mitchell even says that msot fo the journalistic community knew it, and Mitchell is mainstream media, and we all know they never lie, right? She certainly wouldn't lie to help Bush, and the fact that Plame was not a secret certainly helps Bush.

Of course us right wing nutcases have been saying this whole thing was fishy since day one. If her employment was such a big secret that was essential to national security, why did they allow her to parade herself on the cover of Vanity Fair? She obviouly wasn't worried about her safety. And why send her husband on a very visible trip to Niger and let him make the talk show circuit? If you want to keep your wife's employment a secret, hogging the spotlight is not the way to do it. It is, however, a good way to then be able to accuse others of outing your wife when the truth becomes even more wiudely known than it already was. THis whole thing is a joke, and it's ridiculous how much energy people (including myself) have put in to it.