[lugsoul]

All by her lonesome, I'm sure. Which also would automatically make her the authority on the status of every CIA employee who could potentially be covered by it, and the repository of all factual information, such as assigned cover, overseas assignments, etc, that would be used to determine if someone fell within the definition.

That's what you are trying to say, isn't it?

[kabar]

No, I am saying that Toensing is the author of the law and knows both the spirit and intent of it. I believe only one person has ever been prosecuted under the law.

[kabar]

Hubris by Victoria Toensing

[kabar]

Whatever she was in the early 1990s, she was not covert within five years of Novak’s 2003 column. “Covert” is a legal term requiring numerous factors, including a foreign assignment at time of publication or within five years. Another factor is that the CIA had to be taking affirmative measures to protect the covert person’s identity. Hardly the situation here where Plame went daily to Langley, and where the CIA press person admitted to Novak she was employed by the agency.