Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong here.
Seems like I read at the time that Valerie was not even classified as “covert” when she was outed. That they had tried her as covert and she bombed, just like her movie.
Do I have this even close to correct?
Can't attest to the "tried her as covert and she bombed".
But she was definitely not "covert". Nobody who has been assigned to duty in the USA for the previous five years can be officially considered "covert". And Plame had been back in the US of A for over six years.