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The CIA had to assert that Plame was covert in order for there to be an investigation in the first place. Got it?

Please provide a link documenting that information.

Thank you.

", ohioWfan wrote:
The CIA had to assert that Plame was covert in order for there to be an investigation in the first place. Got it?

Please provide a link documenting that information."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A11208-2003Sep27&notFound=true

"Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media

By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 28, 2003; Page A01

At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday.

The operative's identity was published in July after her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore from Africa for possible use in nuclear weapons. Bush later backed away from the claim."

And here is a link to the wiki of the timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_leak_grand_jury_investigation

Now, please just read the indictment, ok.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_indictment_28102005.pdf

"The CIA had to assert that Plame was covert in order for there to be an investigation in the first place."

There's any number of things the CIA could allege that would get an investigation started. It would be very easy for a CIA attorney to figure out whether Plame was "covert", as of July 14th, 2003, or not. All they would have to do is look at the statute.

The fact that no one is being indicted under this statute suggests that Plame was not a "covert" agent, as that term is used in the statute.