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.
Definitely. Analyzing what Isikoff and Corn put in their footnotes is like a psychological case study in repression :-)