I understood Novak not to be denying that Plame/Wilson is involved in covert ops but to be saying that a CIA source had given him to understand that she was merely an analyst–a very different thing. Did whatever administration official spoke to Novak realize what her job was? If not, does his ignorance save him from breaking the law? There is rather a lot that’s murky in this story. The Washington Post reports 1) that Joseph Wilson says that Andrea Mitchell, among others, told him that the administration had told her about his wife’s job and 2) that Mitchell had reported that Wilson was saying that the administration had told reporters about his wife’s job. So Mitchell’s source was Wilson, but Wilson’s source was Mitchell?