ANDREA MITCHELL ON PLAME

Over at JustOneMinute, there's a thread about whether or not Mitchell said on MSNBC that Plame's cover was well known in DC. You can go there for the details but commenter Jim E. nudged me into doing a little more research on what Mitchell really said:

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for July 14
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8551790/


ANDREA MITCHELL: The other thing is a lot of misreporting, including in some of the papers today about what her role was. She was back in the States, had been back in the States since 1997. But she was still covert. She was considered a CIA officer, and a covert officer at Langley. Now she had previously been what was considered under non-official cover, which meant that she was of the deepest type of undercover spy overseas, meaning she had a job in a CIA front organization, a company that took years and years to establish. And that revealing her name was serious because anyone who ever dealt with that company or with her, any foreign national CIA agent, agent that is a term used for foreigners, that person or persons could then be suspect and could then be under life-threatening conditions.