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Oh, and I think you mean that she wasn't 'covert' as defined by the statute, rather than clandestine. Based on press reports, that may be accurate. But I'm guessing we don't know much of anything about this from info in the press.

The CIA did a referral for some reason. And Fitzgerald has taken two years with it for some reason. It would be odd if all that could've been avoided with a curt conclusion that she didn't fall within the statute.

It would be odd if all that could've been avoided with a curt conclusion that she didn't fall within the statute.

That would appear to be the case.

"clandestine" "covert" Wilson seems to be playing with words as did he who "did not have "sex" with that woman".

The CIA did a referral for some reason. And Fitzgerald has taken two years with it for some reason. It would be odd if all that could've been avoided with a curt conclusion that she didn't fall within the statute.

It can easily take two years to try to figure out who said what to whom when everyone says they heard it from somebody else and nobody points to an ultimate source. That's what I think has gone on here. Everybody in Washington knew about Val and Joe, but nobody can remember exactly who told them and when, it was just cocktail party chatter for months. And it isn't necessary to prove Plame was covert, it is necessary to prove that anyone who leaked her name to the media THOUGHT she was covert and thought they were blowing her cover and did it anyway.