Unless one believes the CIA is the enemy.

Certainly Bush didn't think so--he gave the guy who was the head of the CIA at the time the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for crissakes!

But he also gave one to the incompetent cur, Paul Bremmer, as well, so one has to question Bush's judgment.

provides the best reasons to think that the CIA still considered Plame to in fact be a covert agent. Whether she actually was covert in any meaningful sense--let alone whether Rove or Libby found out via a classified memo--are issues yet to be adjudicated.

Remember the fact that it was the CIA who requested the Justice department to investigate the leak. This is evidence enough that the CIA considered the leak serious. If Plame was not occupying a sensitive position the CIA would never have requested a criminal investigation.

A humorous point is after you collect a lot of codewords, you start to forgot what info they covered. And since you can't write any of it down because having a cheat sheet of codewords and what they are is a major compartmentalization violation.