Wilson ping.
excellent!
Thanks for the ping!
Splendid sleuthing, Fedora. Thank you~~!! Fitzie's pretty much buried Plame's status in his pursuit of Scooter, hasn't he?
Thanks for your work, Fedora!
In your piece you said:
"Although this question seems highly relevant to the key issue of whether Plame was covert at the time of Novak’s column, Isikoff and Corn choose to gloss over it by relegating their discussion to a footnote (as they frequently do with other important information inconvenient to their spin)."
Their ommissions could be more useful than what they mention in the way of narrowing target areas of further inquiry.
Excellent work.
I can't get past the fact that CIA confirmed her employment to Novak. If CIA outs you over the phone to some guy calling in, you are not covert. End of story.
If she were covert, first they wouldn't have confirmed it over the phone. Second, Novak is the one who outed her in print, and Corn revealed that she was supposedly covert. If anyone were going to be prosecuted, it should be those two. The fact that they get a pass tells you all you need to know about the motive for the investigation.
What is there to investigate? First, she's not covert, the CIA gave her up over the pnone. Second, they know who printed the information (Novak, Corn) and they know where the original information came from (Armitage).
An "investigation" when you already know the answers is a hoax.