Doesn't this qualify Plame as covert for the law?

[jsamuel]

If you read it, she is B (ii) at LEAST. Which qualifies the law.

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(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency—

(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and

(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States; or

(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information, and—

(i) who resides and acts outside the United States as an agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency, or

(ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence or foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or

(C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose past or present intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information and who is a present or former agent of, or a present or former informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency.

[shraby]

1. The fact that the CIA asked for the investigation

proves that she was an undercover agent.

[jsamuel]

2. Yes

I said that in another post, but I am tired of everyone siting the "outside the country the last 5 years" thing. Even if she was outside in the last 5 years, WE WOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE SHE WAS NOC.

[jojo54]

3. Yes.

All 4 former agents at today's hearings said she was actually an undercover agent. Period. It's time for B*shco to wake up and smell the impeachment.

[Kagemusha]

4. If you read *really* carefully, it doesn't mention the word covert.

There's various reasons for this. Toensing is saying how this law is hard to violate because it requires specific knowledge. Proving who had that specific knowledge is the proper role of a prosecutor.