A little reminder to the Democrats Plame wasn't covert

The Scooter Libby verdict was 4 counts of pergury but the main one that Democrats wanted to stick was outting a covert CIA agent and it didn't why? Because Valerie Plame was never covert here is the link to the story Note: Victoria Toensing who was chief councel for the chariman of the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence at the time is the person talking in this interview.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45266
Here is the portion of the article that backs up Republicans charge that Plame wasn't covert when her name and occupation were revealed. Toensin, now a private attorney in Washington, says Plame most likely was not a covert agent when Rove referred to her in a 2003 interview with Time magazine's Matt Coooper. The federal code says the agent must have operated outside the United States within the previous five years. But Plame gave up her role as a covert agent nine years before the Rove interview. According to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Kristof said the CIA bought Plame back to Washington in 1994 because the agency suspected her undercover security had been compromised by turncoat spy Aldrich Ames. Rove, according to Cooper's notes,apparently was trying to warn the reporter not to give credence. to Wilson's investigation because he had no expertise in nuclear weapons and was sent to Africa on the recommendation of his wife. Wilson has claimed he was sent by Vice-President Cheney. Toensing says that on the contrary, the CIA gave Plame a desk job in which she publicly went to and from work,allowed her spouse to do a mission in Africa without signing a confidentiality agreement and didn't object to his writing an op-ed piece in the New York Times
about his trip.