Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times seems to quote the authors of the 1982 statute as saying the CIA said Plame was not undercover at the time of her name being made public. Are there any other sources or proof out there that this is or isn't true? This must be the same info the right uses to justify her outing. Is there any other info out there to either support or debunk this story?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/marin/cst-edt-carol011.html
"By any standard, it is a curious criminal investigation. Even the authors of the 1982 federal law that made it illegal to disclose the identity of a "covert" CIA operative have gone on record saying in this particular case the law does not appear to have been broken. Why? Because, according to federal legal experts Victoria Toensing and Bruce Sanford, Valerie Plame wasn't working covertly, and the CIA, when contacted by Novak in advance of his story, never offered any objection to him publishing her na
me."