[cracker]

"Since we know (or are at least fairly certain) that Plame was not working undercover at the CIA and had not been for quite some time, the MSM ranting about "outing a CIA undercover agent" is just so much baloney"

Duh...

1. The CIA asked DOJ to open a criminal investigation.
2. If Plame was not undercover, no crime was committed.
3. Presumably, the CIA would know if one of their employees was undercover.

4. Ergo, Plame was still undercover. QED

[InterceptPoint]

Ergo, Plame was still undercover. QED

Ergo Pergo

Except for one thing - Plame was not undercover. There are now reliable sources that have reported that including Bill Gertz of the Washington Times. You will have to do better than some very loose logic based on the CIA asking DOJ to open a criminal investigation. You don't know what their motives might have been nor what orders they had received from the White House.

[ravingnutter]

The CIA asked DOJ to open a criminal investigation.

Correction: George Tenet asked the DOJ to open a criminal investigation. Tenet was a Clinton hold-over. Then Democratic leaders in Congress demanded the appointment of the special counsel to take over the investigation from the Justice Department.

[yevgenie]

LOL, 4. Ergo, Plame was still undercover. QED

I read your 1, 2, and 3, and come up with 4. Plame was NOT undercover and nothing substantial was done. Some people at the CIA, haters of truth and of all things American wanted to stick-it-to the President and manufactured this garbage.