[Cboldt]

I still wonder where Rush got his info that she had not been a covert Agent in over nine years.

Maybe somebody clipped the news and showed it to him.

Here's another ... http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2003_10/002395.php

October 11, 2003

VALERIE PLAME'S CAREER....Today's Nick Kristof column on Valerie Plame actually contains some new information:

First, the C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994. So her undercover security was undermined at that time, and she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons.

Second, as Mrs. Wilson rose in the agency, she was already in transition away from undercover work to management, and to liaison roles with other intelligence agencies. So this year, even before she was outed, she was moving away from "noc" which means non-official cover, like pretending to be a business executive. After passing as an energy analyst for Brewster-Jennings & Associates, a C.I.A. front company, she was switching to a new cover as a State Department official, affording her diplomatic protection without having "C.I.A." stamped on her forehead.

[Primetimedonna]

Thanks for clearing up the nine year reference. So, if she was still working undercover in "private industry" type jobs, she would still technically be undercover.