Plame headed WMD search, says new book

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday September 6, 2006
The Guardian

Valerie Plame, a covert CIA agent whose identity was leaked by the Bush administration at the height of a political feud with her husband, was in charge of operations aimed at finding out if Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to a new book.

The Plame affair has dogged the White House since July 2003, when her cover was blown, but the nature of her job had been unknown. In Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, two Washington journalists, Michael Isikoff and David Corn, say she was the chief of operations of the CIA's joint taskforce on Iraq.