So, Joe Wilson wrote an op-ed for the LA Times on how the last 27 months have been for him and his wife. In it he addresses what I felt was the weakest point in the argument that a crime had been committed, which was whether or not his wife was truly a covert agent or just an agency bureaucrat as many have suggested. Consider this excerpt:

But on July 14, 2003, our lives were irrevocably changed. That was the day columnist Robert Novak identified Valerie as an operative, divulging a secret that had been known only to me, her parents and her brother.


Well, if it's true only four people in the world outside of the CIA knew that's where she worked, it certainly sounds as if she was an agent whose identity was being protected.