Has anyone ever SEEN the CIA request for an investigation? I have said several times today that I read the request was not made by usual routine.
There has been confusion regarding covert vs classified because Fitz would not use the word covert.
Is it possible we have been wrong about the request? We are assuming the investigation all along has been about the deliberate outing of a COVERT agent.
What if the CIA, knowing she was not covert, didn't waste time, so they used CLASSIFIED knowing they might have a better chance to get the WH.. A means to an end. Any means to a specific end.
Have we been hoodwinked by the dark side again? All this we have discussed about how this is not a crime; she was not covert. Was the investigation the leaking of classified info from the very start?
I'm glad you brought this up.
Classifications:
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
For Official Use Only
Unclassified
...which are among other classifications
Plame's job at the CIA is classified as = Unclassified.
Fitzgerald is playing word games and obfuscating facts.