[PzLdr]

She wasn't a covert operative. My understanding is that she was a pencil pusher or bean counter at Langley. And why wasn't anybody at the CIA reprimanded for allowing this woman to get her husband the job?{Potential conflict of interest, appearance of impropriety, etc, etc} Could it be because the Agency bureaucrats were opposed to "W's" policies, were of a like mind with Wilson and the little woman, and didn't want to give "W" any ammo against Saddam?

[Enterprise]

"Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip."

Only the delusional ignoramuses of the left can take the above and spin it as someone "outing" an undercover agent. Rove is saying that a trip was not authorized by a Director, but rather, by Wilson's wife. Now how in hell does that translate to "Valerie Plame is an undercover operative for the CIA?" And since when to "undercover operatives" have the authority to expend department resources for the purpose of assigning a SPOUSE to an "investigation?"

I beg, I plead, I stamp my feet, and urge the MSM reporters to pleeeaaasssse start asking basic investigative questions before they rush to publish this type of crap.

[cyncooper]

And why wasn't anybody at the CIA reprimanded for allowing this woman to get her husband the job?{Potential conflict of interest, appearance of impropriety, etc, etc}

That was precisely the point Wilson and his enablers sought to obfuscate and distract from with their cries of "The WH is seeking to retaliate" nonsense.

BTW, just why did Plame want her husband to make the trip? That's what I'd like to know.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Quite right; and evidently the fact that she was with the CIA was anything but a closely guarded secret. So what is the point of the investigation?