"The focus had been on White House staff. Now, as Pat says, with this memo from the State Department about Wilson, about his wife, about the connection, it was brought onto Air Force One by Secretary Powell."
Was she covert? Did she meet the legal definition? If she wasn't, which she wasn't, then so what who discussed what. This administration has every right to defend themselves against slanderous claims.
I can't imagine President Clinton ever talking about his opponents, can you?
This is the supposed crime? Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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.
Precisely.