To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (130503 ) 8/7/2005 10:57:18 PM From: bentway Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793719 Find me the ACTUAL Andrea Mitchell quote ( which the guy who found the other one, from FOUR DAYS LATER was searching for ) and I'll believe it. Seems like some right-wing bushwa to me! I don't think hundreds or thousands of people knew. Her neighbors didn't. Just MORE right-wing bushwa. The powerline "quote" WASN'T a quote! If it was a "quote", it could be confirmed. "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." This IS a quote: "'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for July 14msnbc.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." This was the nearest (in time) comment he could find from Andrea Mitchell on the MSNBC website transcripts RE Plame.