One of the memes being floated out there on the wingnut side of the blogosphere is that, well, so what if Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA covert op. You know, she probably wasn't doing anything particularly important anyway.
It's an interesting hypothesis, presumably coming from people who have in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the CIA. Not. Actually, it's just "she's a chick so she can't have been very important."
Who knows, maybe they're right, but they have no reason to believe it.
