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'''Valeria Plame''' is a former [[CIA]] employee whose identity was revealed by [[Richard Armitage]] and exposed in a column by political writer [[Robert Novak]].  Plame is the wife of [[Joseph Wilson]] and the center of the [[Valerie Plame Affair]].

'''Valeria Plame''' is a former [[CIA]] employee whose identity was revealed by [[Richard Armitage]] and exposed in a column by political writer [[Robert Novak]].  Plame is the wife of [[Joseph Wilson]] and the center of the [[Valerie Plame Affair]].

Although Plame was not covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act,<ref>[http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/06/02/mcclellan_on_plame]</ref> President Bush appointed special prosecutor [[Patrick Fitzgerald]] to investigate the leak.  

At the time of her outing, Valerie Plame was a "covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States." <ref>[http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2007/05/30/plame/ Unclassified Summary of Valerie Wilsons CIA Employment And Cover History]</ref> President Bush appointed special prosecutor [[Patrick Fitzgerald]] to investigate the leak.  

Opponents of President's Bush [[invasion of Iraq]], particularly Democrats, accused the White House of "outing" Plame in retaliation for her husband's statement undercutting Bush's invasion rationale.

Opponents of President's Bush [[invasion of Iraq]], particularly Democrats, accused the White House of "outing" Plame in retaliation for her husband's statement undercutting Bush's invasion rationale.