| #1 She was in an administrative position at the time of the alleged outing, her non-official status had been previously terminated. Plame found what she was looking for in her agency role and married him thus ending any hopes of a long term covert career. Plame is a product of the same "glass ceiling" busting agency crowd that produced the zealot, administrative (non-operator wanna-be) supervisor who got herself and six others killed at FOB Chapman. Training and experience does matter. Unless one counts royalties from the "pretend" world of books and movies, Plame's status as an agency administrative employee matters little. |