It's my understanding that Fitzgerald didn't indict Libby for revealing the identity of a CIA operative because there's no evidence that Libby knew of her covert status.
He requested that his name not be used in this article because he has been advised that he could lose his covert status if he is identified.
They had decided not to take photos of any C.I.A. officers who still maintained covert status and whose names had never been made public.
The spin-doctors, perhaps unaware of Ms Plame's covert status, were allegedly trying to claim Mr Wilson had got the Niger job only because of his wife's influence).
"These efforts have been extremely precise and effective," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the program's covert status.
The Administration official I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby David Andrewss) coördinates an investigation, a story spreads that Plame sent Wilson to Africa, and Plame's covert status is leaked to the columnist Robert Novak.
Several neighbors of Ms. Wilson and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, were asked whether they knew that Ms. Wilson, also known by her unmarried name, Valerie Plame, had covert status.
If his schedule permits, Joss Whedon may also direct the pilot episode about the shadowy paramilitary organization that recruits the disparate members of the Avengers to work together in a group, and which somehow maintains its covert status while operating from a giant flying aircraft carrier.
