aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Undercover, covert & classified

Lest there was any question:

Before Valerie’s testimony on Friday the CIA had never put anything on the public record regarding her status.  Yesterday the CIA came out of the closet.  CIA Director Michael Hayden approved a statement that contained the following language:

During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.

Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.

At the time of the publication of Robert Novak’s column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment status was covert.

This was classified information.

Got it?  The Director of the CIA confirmed in public for the first time that Valerie Plame Wilson was undercover, was covert and that this information was classified.  What is it about English that goober Congressman Westmoreland and ditzy Vicky Toensing don’t understand?