Next time you hear the FOX spin that Valerie Plame was a "desk jockey" (via radio hack Laura Ingraham) who could notnowaynohow be covert, because SHE WALKED INTO A BUILDING EVERYDAY...think about it. Secret agents don't WALK INTO A BUILDING. They must have secret tunnels and invisible cars. After all, even though the CIA has public offfices, nobody who works there is ever covert. So how could Plame claim to be covert:

WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

The summary is part of an attachment to Fitzgerald's memorandum to the court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18924679/

And here's prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on October 28, 2005:

"Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community. Valerie Wilson's friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life. The fact that she was a CIA officer was not well-known, for her protection or for the benefit of all us. It's important that a CIA officer's identity be protected, that it be protected not just for the officer, but for the nation's security. Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003. The first sign of that cover being blown was when Mr. Novak published a column on July 14th, 2003."

But the president said he would get to the bottom of this.

Like Nixon promised to investigate Watergate.