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Correct Fitzgerald avoided the term "covert" like the plague.

Listening to the first part of his press conference, Fitzgerald was carefully parsing his words, and I noticed a slight halt in his voice whenever he said "CIA officer" when talking about the 1982 law that covered covert operative. He was trying to mislead by using a generic term when a very specific one is used in the statute. He would also have had a hard time proving Libby, or anyone else, intended grave harm to anybody, which the law requires.

The investigation should have taken about 15 minutes, since none of the conditions of the 1982 law, or the 1917 law they considered as a backup, would hold up. Instead, they spent two years grilling people about something they knew they would not indict on, hoping for a slip somewhere.

I rejected the following phrases when klinton was investigated for real perjury, coverup, and obstruction of justice. Still, I feel those words should be heard again:

"Get on with the work of the country"

"Somebody only wants to write a book about this, and make money."

"Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted."

"It was only about sex (or gossip)".

"The real crime is in demeaning the office of the presidency."

I explain this below. These two terms are not interchangeable. Her ASSIGNMENTS at the CIA may have been "covert," because no one is "covert" all the time. Some missions are, some are not. But the assigning of anyone to a mission is "classified," meaning "secret." You can have a non-covert agent with a "classified" assignment, meaning no one is to know what he is working on, but he is not "undercover."

I have worked with "classified" material before. That doesn't mean that no one knows where I work---it means I can't talk about what I worked on ON THAT PARTICULAR ASSIGNMENT.

I don't think the special prosecutor is confused, or avoiding a question. I think he's being very careful to further entrap Libby, and LL better watch it. He's in heap big trouble.