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What a joke. YOU are the one who said the CIA "tacitly" gave the go-ahead to release her name. Not only is that silly, it is flat-out untrue. And you base it entirely upon a so-called "confidential" source. Spin, spin, spin. We'll talk about this when the facts so many want to run from are front and center.

This much can't be disputed, even if you believe Novak: The CIA didn't want her name and affiliation with them released. "Senior administration officials" told Novak that Plame worked for the CIA. If Novak didn't know it already, then "everybody in Washington" most certainly didn't - Novak would certainly know something like that if it were common knowledge. White House counsel says she was an "undercover CIA agent." Even though the CIA didn't want her named, "senior administration officials" outed her as CIA and Novak named her. Facts, not spin.

White House counsel says she was an "undercover CIA agent

That's not correct. The White House Counsel said:

We were informed last evening by the Department of Justice that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee.

They didn't say that she was or wasn't. They said that there is an investigation into whether a possible unauthorized disclosure occurred.

lug, you are the one that is spinning here.