Ah haaaaaaaaaaaaa he finally admits it!!! He finally freaking admits she was not COVERT. You arse hole. You brought your personal bias toward the CIA into this investigation and were looking for blood.
Its admirable that you want to protect CIA agents. BUT, there was a specific statute here. You can claim a prosecutor doesn't just investigate statutes, but thats Bravo Sierra and you know it. You investigate whether a crime has been happened. If it wasn't that statute, then what was the crime. . .ah ha, it was the activities of the accused surrounding the investigation that comprised the crime.
He opened the conference with a noble statement about "Plame being covert and how important that was to maintain that status." Then you deteriorate under questioning to a "well, Plame wasn't really covert and gee, nothing I said should be interpreted that way, but. . . ."
I hope there's a transcript!