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Whizbang is all over the revelation that the publication Who's Who in America listed Valerie Plame as Joe Wilson's wife -- beginning in 1999!

So, let's briefly review the Plame Game - Rovegate edition:

1. It was public record that Plame was married to Wilson, as shown above.

2. Plame's covert status ended in the mid-1990's when she was outed by Aldrich Ames to the Russians. This according to Bill Gertz, and referenced in Footnote 7, page 8 of This legal filing of the Amicus brief filed by "36 major news organizations" in the detention case of Judith Miller.

3. Retaining Plame in a covert status beyond this time would be breathtakingly irresponsible of the CIA and the Administration currently in power at that time (now who could that have been?).

Still unanswered is who thought it was a good idea to have a covert CIA agent married to an active U.S. Ambassador. Hint: Once again, who was the President prior to G.W. Bush?

Even if Plame was "covert" at the time Rove didn't give her name to reporters, she shouldn't have been. Numerous reports indicate it was common knowledge in Washington that Plame worked in the CIA prior to Rove going on background to Time reporter Matthew Cooper.

Further efforts by partisans to acquire Rove's scalp can therefore be dismissed without additional consideration. Game, set, match.

I still want to know who thinks it's a good idea for a U.S. Ambassador to be married to a freakin' CIA officer in the first place, for cryin' out loud!