She recomended him for the mission.
Your memory betrays you again:
In March 2007, Plame addressed the question while testifying before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: "I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him. There was no nepotism involved. I did not have the authority.... It's been borne out in the testimony during the Libby trial, and I can tell you that it just doesn't square with the facts." She described that in February 2002, while discussing an inquiry from the office of Vice President Cheney about the alleged Iraqi uranium purchases, a colleague who knew of her husband's diplomatic background and previous work with the CIA suggested sending him, and that she agreed to facilitate the discussion between her husband and her superiors despite her own ambivalence about the idea.
Plame affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was wrong... Bad recollection on my part.
It is a runing theme with you.
Are you accepting that she was, at the time Novak published, a covert CIA agent?
First, Harlow to my knowledge doesn't disagree with what Novak said.
About what, specifically?
..Second, you again make accusations that the facts just don't substanciate.
About what, specifically?
Wilson and plame to this day deny that.
In his testimony to the grand jury, Libby testified that both he and Vice President Cheney believed that Joseph Wilson was qualified for the mission, though they wondered if he would have been selected had his wife not worked at the CIA.[37][38]
Subsequent press accounts reported that "White House officials wanted to know how much of a role she had in selecting him for the assignment."[39]
In his book, Tenet writes "Mid-level officials in [the CIA’s Counterproliferation Division (CPD)] decided on their own initiative to [ask Joe Wilson to look into the Niger issue because] he'd helped them on a project once before, and he'd be easy to contact because his wife worked in CPD."[40]
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You and other Bush bashers...
Um, Bush was out of the loop, the "bash" is all about the VP's Office:
It was established at trial that it was Cheney himself who first told Libby about Plame's identity as a CIA agent, in the course of complaining about criticisms of the administration's run-up to war leveled by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. And, as Fitzgerald notes: "The evidence at trial further established that when the investigation began, Mr. Libby kept the Vice President apprised of his shifting accounts of how he claimed to have learned about Ms. Wilson's CIA employment."
The investigation, Fitzgerald writes, "was necessary to determine whether there was concerted action by any combination of the officials known to have disclosed the information about Ms. Plame to the media as anonymous sources, and also whether any of those who were involved acted at the direction of others. This was particularly important in light of Mr. Libby's statement to the FBI that he may have discussed Ms. Wilson's employment with reporters at the specific direction of the Vice President."
Dan Froomkin - Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney - washingtonpost.com
That's false... The documents he read may have been classified,
Um, the MEMO was stamped SECRET on every page.
Here is the unclassifed, redacted, court released copy:
http://www.nysun.com/pics/31062_1.php
See all of the places it is stamped SECRET.
Maybe Armitage had trouble reading documents, there is a lot of that going around lately too.
That is correct, but of course it wasn't known at the time that her identity was classified.
FFS, you just got done reading from HARLOW that he confirmed during his conversations with Novak that she was COVERT.
WTF? Are you forgetting what I just corrected you about?
Here's where you lose me... If that were true, then one or more people would have been charged with the crime of disclosing her name, but of course nobody was... That's because Fitz found no indication to suggest that anyone was ever informed or had knowledge of plames covert status prior to disclosing her identity as the person who got Wilson the CIA mission.
Libby's lies, Fitzgerald wrote, "made impossible an accurate evaluation of the role that Mr. Libby and those with whom he worked played in the disclosure of information regarding Ms. Wilson's CIA employment and about the motivations for their actions."
Dan Froomkin - Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney - washingtonpost.com
This is where the facts contradict your accusations. On the other hand, the facts fit rather nicely with what I said, which was:
Nobody revealed her name to "out" her... it was part of the story and if anything, it was done to both embarrass and discredit Wilson.
I still have no idea how you think revealing that she worked at the CIA would be an "embarrassment" to Wilson, he was proud of her career. To reveal her position was an act of malice, just the acknowledging that it was done to "get Joe Wilson" is a recognizing of the fact. I have no idea why you think your saying what you say is supposed to be an excuse.
Four upper WH employees nearly simultaneously revealing the name of a covert agent to multiple reporters does not happen by accident, especially when you admit it was done intentionally.