Valerie Plame, the "undercover" agent whose cover was "blown" by Richard Armitage reportedly has testified to Congress that, prior to Armitage's revelation, her covert status "was not widely known on the Georgetown cocktail circuit." I guess that counts as keeping a secret by Washington standards.

Plame also apparently is claiming that she did not recommend that her husband, Joe Wilson, go to Niger to investigate allegations that Iraq was talking to Niger officials about purchasing uranium (allegations which Wilson found to be true before he found them to be false). Rather, it was some guy who walked by her desk at CIA headquarters (where secret-agent Plame worked). Plame and "the guy who walked by" then took the idea to her supervisor, who told her to bring her husband in and to write an email about it. So sending Wilson to Niger was the idea of walk-by man and her supervisor, according to the lame Ms. Plame.