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Mr. Rustmann spent 20 of his 24 years under "nonofficial cover" aka NOC, which was the same status as Valerie Plame, also stated that she worked under extremly light cover.
Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA case officer, wrote about the damage caused by outing Valerie Plame.
"The revealing of Valerie Plame's true employer has in all probability hurt no one overseas. You can rest assured that if her (most recent) outing had actually hurt an agent from her past, we would've heard about it through a CIA leak."
"Langley's systemic sloppiness--the flimsiness of cover is but the tip of the iceberg of incompetence--has repeatedly destroyed agent networks and provoked "flaps" with some of our closest allies. A serious CIA would never have allowed Mr. Wilson to go on such an odd, short "fact finding" mission. It never would have allowed Ms. Plame potentially to expose herself by recommending such an overt mission for her mate, not known for his subtlety and discretion. With a CIA where cover really mattered, Mr. Libby would not now be indicted. But that's not what we have in the real world."[http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007522]
=== Public opinion ===
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