>>>that seems so clear -- whatever could be the problem with the CIA, one might wonder --<<<
What you and the fascist tabloids call a CIA "problem" seems to amount to nothing more than their failure to respond with what you would like to hear. When they say "it is taking longer than expected" to reply because of "the considerable legal complexity required for this tasking", who knows what they refer to (except Clarice Feldman)? An entire CIA network was destroyed with this leak and wack job Bush fans can't figure out why there isn't immediate full disclosure on all the details of it.
Your community likes to talk forever to make simple things seem complex. I like to keep simple things simple and this is one of them.
Plame, as a CIA employee, only has to fulfill 2 criteria for covert status:
1. Her status had to be classified which everyone agree it was.
2. She had to have served, not necessarily lived, overseas within 5 years prior to the leak which she said she did - under oath.
This is based on the legal definition of covert and has nothing to do with the CIA's opinion. So this simple question remains: Under what circumstance does this NOT boil down to whether Plame served overseas between 1998 and 2003?
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