[Darkwolf377]

What I can't understand is why we can't get someone in the CIA to get in front of a microphone and say one sentence: Valerie Plame WAS covert at the time" or "Valerie Plame was NOT covert at the time," because it's academic now that everyone is talking about her.

[tobyhill]

I think the CIA doesn't want to disrupt this investigations by getting in front of the microphone but they have sent messages out that does indicate she was not covert.
Former covert CIA agent Fred Rustmann, Washington Times, 15 July 2005 said that "she made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat...Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this." It was the position of the CIA, according to Rustmann, that she was a "non-official cover," or NOC, until 1997, and hadn't been out as that type of agent since then, instead having overt status."