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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (130492)	8/7/2005 9:16:08 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

I found this: justoneminute.typepad.com "Tracking Down A Loose End I can find plenty of references invoking the notion that Andrea Mitchell recently admitted that Valerie Plame's identity was widely known amongst journalists and/or the Washington glitterati. However, all the cites seem to lead back to this Powerline post, where the info was delivered in a late update as follows: SCOTT adds: Hilail Gildin writes: "Andrea Mitchell was asked, on MSNBC, whether it was generally known to news people, before the hullabaloo, that Ms. Plame worked for the CIA. She answered, somewhat reluctantly, that it was. In the light of this, I don't understand the ensuing fuss." The Powerline post was July 10, a Sunday; Ms. Mitchell's appearance is not dated, and I have had no luck finding anything looking like a likely transcript." And then, THIS: radamisto.blogspot.com "'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for July 14 msnbc.msn.com ANDREA MITCHELL: "The other thing is a lot of misreporting, including in some of the papers today about what her role was. She was back in the States, had been back in the States since 1997. But she was still covert. She was considered a CIA officer, and a covert officer at Langley. Now she had previously been what was considered under non-official cover, which meant that she was of the deepest type of undercover spy overseas, meaning she had a job in a CIA front organization, a company that took years and years to establish. And that revealing her name was serious because anyone who ever dealt with that company or with her, any foreign national CIA agent, agent that is a term used for foreigners, that person or persons could then be suspect and could then be under life-threatening conditions." Got to be careful about Dan Rather-like assertions! I love the internet!