[Cboldt]

... the fact remains there is an ongoing investigation as if she WAS covert.

I've been looking (so far in vain) for the questionnaire that CIA forwarded to Justice. I did find this snippet, which seems to indicate that CIA is asking whether or not a law was broken, which is different from assering and reporting that for sure, a law was broken.

The unauthorized disclosure laws are a fairly complex tapestry. In fact, the CIA isn't alwasy sure a law is broken, and sometimes (maybe more often than not) prefers to not bring the high profile of prosecution to bear on a disclosure.

As The Washington Post reported on October 1, 2003, the CIA submitted a detailed questionnaire to the Justice Department to initiate an investigation into whether the incident amounted to a "violation of federal law that prohibits unauthorized disclosures of classified information."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507150007

This is a good read to give a flavor of the complexity of finding a statutory violation: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/lapham.html.

[sirchtruth]

As The Washington Post reported on October 1, 2003, the CIA submitted a detailed questionnaire to the Justice Department to initiate an investigation into whether the incident amounted to a "violation of federal law that prohibits unauthorized disclosures of classified information."

You are like the Master Informer aren't you? I now designate you operative MI!

Good info, thanks...your identity will not be revealed to any reporter or gov't official without serious consquences! Look out Karl Rove...