[half-cajun]

This makes absolutely no sense. You've been conducting an investigation for this long and you just now are trying to find out if people knew she was an agent. Something is really screwy about this.

[lugsoul]

They weren't being interviewed for the first time. Several sources report this.

My guess is it is a push back on someone raising the "She wasn't covert - all her friends and neighbors knew" defense when negotiating with Fitz.

[kabar]

This makes absolutely no sense. You've been conducting an investigation for this long and you just now are trying to find out if people knew she was an agent. Something is really screwy about this.

Maybe they are investigating Plame and Wilson to see if they were abiding by the Agency's cover rules. OTOH, they may be trying to determine how widespread the knowledege of her employment was and whether her "outing" was all that significant to justify indicting anyone.

[wouldntbprudent]

What about this? What if they are going after Wilson and Plame, instead of Rove and Libby?

If their neighbors did not know Plame worked at the CIA, that would make it worse and more intentional when Wilson and Plame embarked on a course (getting him sent to Niger and publishing a piece in the NYT) that pretty much ensured she would be found out.