Here is an interesting quote from your link:
"A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an “undercover agent,” saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency’s headquarters in Langley and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee."
Unfortunately, but I don't see any attribution or reference. Where did this come from?
Russ - I can't remember that guy's name, but I remember when he came forward - he did not work at CIA at all during the time he says Plame was working @ hq. He retired like in the early-mid 90s.
The 'she was not covert' argument requires one to believe that the CIA made a criminal referral with no basis, that DOJ opened an investigation with no basis, appointed a special prosecutor to pursue a case with no basis, maintained a GJ investigation with no basis, etc. Could be, but Occam's Razor would argue against this line of thinking.
“She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat,” Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990, told The Washington Times.
He and several other former intel agents were on TV (Fox, CNN, C-SPAN) claiming the same. Larry Johnson of VIPS fame usually was all over CNN, MSNBC or identified as "unidentified former CIA agent" trying to argue the opposite but without providing any facts to his claims.
If you search Fedora's postings here on FR, he has pretty well documented Plamegate and Plame status - within reason, without actual CIA statement about Plame work description and position within CIA, but from other official statements.
The "critics" here on FR (like lugsoul) will keep asking questions that try to tell you that if you don't have a physical proof, like a photocopy of document or sound on the tape stating something (like Andrea Mitchell's transcript of Imus interview), they will not accept anything else as a proof, no matter how credible and confirmed by multiple sources, while themselves claiming any statement from anyone to the contrary as a gospel, even from discredited and highly partisan sources like Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern, or David Corn.
Here's from David Corn's own article what she did at CIA, and especially since 1997 (analyst/group manager job at CPD desk in Langley). "Energy firm" reference is supposed to be Brewster-Jennings, so you can ignore the NOC references. Corn instigated this entire fiasco in articles in Nation magazine (a far-far left publication).
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/corn