[frankjr]

"Exactly what her status is isn't pertinent to the question of whether or not his answers to investigators were deliberate misdirection."

I agree. I just don't know what motive would be if he did not believe she was classifed.

[angkor]

"Exactly what her status is isn't pertinent to the question of whether or not his answers to investigators were deliberate misdirection."

But it is pertinent to the question of exctly what Fitzgerald was investigating.

A sting to entrap people in a non-crime?

That's novel.

[Cboldt]

I just don't know what motive would be if he did not believe she was classifed.

See my #14, above. It seems he knew for a fact that her status was not "covert."

"Covert" being shorthand for "Nobody but you and some in the CIA know that you and the CIA have any relationship whatsoever." A janitor in the CIA cannot be "covert," but his personnel file is classified.