", ohioWfan wrote:
The CIA had to assert that Plame was covert in order for there to be an investigation in the first place. Got it?
Please provide a link documenting that information."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A11208-2003Sep27¬Found=true
"Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media
By Mike Allen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 28, 2003; Page A01
At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday.
The operative's identity was published in July after her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore from Africa for possible use in nuclear weapons. Bush later backed away from the claim."
And here is a link to the wiki of the timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_leak_grand_jury_investigation
Now, please just read the indictment, ok.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_indictment_28102005.pdf
the factual error is right there in the referral - she wasn't undercover. once that was established, the case was over.
(And backing it up with Wikepedia........that's RICH!)
NO where in any of the 'documents' you cited was it stated that Valerie Plame was covert. It has been implied in leftist articles like the one you linked from the beginning. But that doesn't make it so.
Sorry, you lose, homer........and Brit wins.