[Dave S]

Oh, no, it's not. And Fitzgerald knows it.

So its he lied to the press so I had to lie to the federal investigators and the grand jury to keep my job defense?

[popdonnelly]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Valerie Plame had been covert withing the meaning of the statute, somebody - maybe many people - would have been indicted a long time ago. To paraphrase George Tenet, it would have been a "slam-dunk".