[Robert A Cook PE]

There are so many people who have admitted that Plame hadn't been covert in years that I'm surprised there was even an investigation.

What is NOT known is WHO at the CIA instigated

(1) the mission

(2) assigned/recommended/approved Wilson as the SINGLE person sent on the mission

(3) received the (oral) report when he returned

(4) financed and approved the money paid Wilson for his time (how much did he/her make on the trip?)

(5) Initiated the request to Justice for the "Edmund Fitzgerald" investigation to begin trying to dig up dirt and muck on Bush and Cheney AFTER the Noval column was written.

[Peach]

Good questions; I'm not sure we'll ever know the answers. After all, we're only the taxpayers who finance these things.

[Kenny Bunk]

(1) the mission (2) assigned/recommended/approved Wilson as the SINGLE person sent on the mission (3) received the (oral) report when he returned (4) financed and approved the money paid Wilson for his time (how much did he/her make on the trip?) (5) Initiated the request to Justice

Engineer, why is that you ask these questions? Or why ask, "What the heck was Sandy Berger actually stealing?"

One would think that any reporter worth his salt would be smart enough to get to the bottom of both of these stories. But, no one asks!

Drives me nuts.