"Whether someone is a desk jockey or not is irrevelant."
You don't know what you are talking about.
If the agent in question has not had a covert overseas assignment for five years prior, the Agent Protection Act of 1982 does not apply.
Which is what this was supposedly all about.
I am going to go out on a limb and make a prediction. The prediction is that the WH is not a target, but people within the CIA are. Not household names, but people acting in the role of (liberal activist) rogues within the CIA, whose goal was to politicize the WMD issue.
Joe Wilson should have reason to be nervous tonight as well.