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Has it not occurred to Bush's critics that the Bush administration didn't need to do anything to reveal that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative?

Former ambassador Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame's husband), started this whole fiasco when he wrote an editorial in the New York Times criticizing Bush, alleging Bush's State-of-the-Union statement that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellow-cake uranium from Niger was false. That Wilson claimed he knew to be false, because he went to Niger and saw no sign of Saddam seeking a purchase (at least not from the Niger operatives Wilson spoke to).

Joe Wilson's allegation in that New York Times editorial obligates the news media (at least a theoretical news media that is not clearly biased and overwhelmingly liberal) to investigate Wilson's allegations and the details of his mission to Niger.
That would entail investigating who recommended, selected and supervised Joe Wilson's recruitment for the trip to Niger, and the true documentation of his findings.
Which would have revealed Valerie Plame's role, and her identity.

So... when Joe Wilson went public in his New York Times editorial, it was him, he, Joe Wilson, no one else, who outed his wife as a C.I.A. agent !

It was Wilson who opened the door, and made a public spectacle of what his mission was, required others to verify the accuracy (or innacuracy) of his statements.
And a necessary part of that was knowing who Valerie Plame is, and her role in this CIA excursion into Niger.

But leave it to liberal partisans in Washington, and the news media, to shunt the blame onto Republicans, instead of on Joe Wilson, where it truly belongs.