<<Because you have no PROOF what-so-ever, outside of a preconceived opinion that she HAD to be covert, so anything that doesn't support that opinion, equates to YOUR perceived whitewash. >>
Once again, and not surprisingly, a complete misperception of my argument. A supposedly "exhaustive" investigation, which omits crucial (but publicly available) information which would have settled the issue either way once and for all; plus a challenge, presently unfulfilled, to find the statute or executive order that must have once designated information regarding Plame's employment as requiring special protection (since all seem to admit she once was a covert agent), or to prove that someone who knows how to search for such things has searched and found none, and, lastly, the absence of any denial from Fitzgerald, the "exhaustive" investigator, that any such statute or Executive Order exists.
That is not conclusive proof that there was a whitewash or that Plame was or was not covert when outed, but it DOES raise a very strong, very legitimate suspicion of whitewash.
YOUR last argument (that since Fitzgerald completed an "exhaustive" investigation and did not indict) is simply ludicrous, since it is equally consistent with whitewash or with no case. A high school student could have seen through that one.
