I have been searching for clear distinctions in kind between Cheney et al.'s outing of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame and the most recent WikiLeaks data dump.
The papers indicated that prosecutors believed Kiriakou had leaked the name of a CIA covert operative to a journalist, who disclosed it to an investigator working for the lawyer of a Guantanamo detainee.
I had a lot more fun with Ubisoft's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which continues the adventures of the cynical covert operative Sam Fisher.
He provided broadcasters with videotape of supposed terrorist training camps; was interviewed as a covert operative by National Public Radio and Fox News; and insinuated himself into a book by the author Robin Moore, "The Hunt for Bin Laden".
He provided broadcasters with videotape of supposed terrorist training camps; was interviewed as a covert operative by National Public Radio and Fox News; and insinuated himself into a book by the author Robin Moore, "The Hunt for Bin Laden". Few knew he had served three years in federal prison in the 1990s on 58 counts of fraud.
It eventually escalated to the point where her identity was publicly exposed by an unnamed White House source as a covert operative in a July 2003 Robert Novak column in The Washington Post.
-- Since being arrested on charges of acting as a covert operative for the Kremlin, 29-year-old Maria Butina has been visited by Russian government officials six times.
None of Valerie Plame's elaborate training to become an elite covert operative for the CIA prepared her for the byzantine, vicious and dispiriting smear campaigns directed against her and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in George Bush's Washington.
He currently writes a fiction series, Cal Unknown, about a former covert operative with a checkered past who is tasked with hunting child predators.
In 2003, journalist Robert Novak reported that Valerie Plame, the wife of prominent US diplomat Joseph Wilson, was in fact an undercover CIA agent, ending her career as a covert operative and leading to her resignation from the intelligence agency.
The agent, a former and future covert operative whose name is being withheld by The Washington Post at the request of the CIA, was on a standard two-year rotation to the White House.
