Yet NOT of outing Plume. Thus the WHOLE " she was not covert" followed by calling Bullshit to the left wing nut jobs claiming A) the Vice President ordered it B) He thus is a traitor and C) Anyone KNOWINGLY told anyone else Plume was Covert or even knew she was.
I keep asking IF she was Covert, WHY did the switchboard at Langley tell a reporter calling to verify her status as working at the CIA that she INDEED was an employee there? Why hasn't that operator been charged with disclosing the identity of a Covert agent?
The reason is obvious. Her employment was unclassified but her intelligence relationship in the covert directorate of the CIA was classified and there was no reason not to release her non-classified employment status to a reporter.
I doubt very much that the Switchboard Operator said, "yes she works for the CIA and she works in our covert operations directorate." That is plain bullshit. It is standard operating procedure of the CIA to acknowledge that covert operatives work at the CIA while maintaining the classified status of their intelligence relationship to the CIA as covert operatives (i.e., the so-called paper pusher is in fact a Director of a Covert Division).