Yes, her cover was blown by Ames. That means she was brought back and would not be sent overseas again. That means all the crap they were putting out there about endangering lives and operations overseas, blah, blah, blah, was ridiculous. That means the Act, which is all about intent, didn't apply to her.
But that doesn't mean she didn't have undercover status. While plenty of people knew she was agency, plenty of people, like her neighbors and friends, were under the impression she worked for another government agency because she was required to say that as a covert employee.
She wasn't an analyst at the time, more like an admin asst. to Alan Foley.
I'm using the legal definition of it.
(4) The term "covert agent" means—
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency—
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States; or
(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information, and—
(i) who resides and acts outside the United States as an agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency, or
(ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence or foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
(C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose past or present intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information and who is a present or former agent of, or a present or former informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency.
Only then would this have been a voolation of Section 421 ( Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources )
Hey, aren't we all guilty, according to the dems, because we're talking about AMES???? ;)
It makes you wonder what is under investigation at this point? Maybe it isn't Rove at all? This has probably evolved into other areas?
Well I hope anyway. LOL