Clarice Feldman notes yesterday’s Ari Fleischer’s testimony at the Libby Trial. Basically more of “He said, he said, but who said before I said, but then there was what’s his name and he said about what she said……”

Nevertheless, Newsweak’s Michael Isokoff continues the innuendo assault on the trial by attempting again to tell us that Plame must have been convert because:

“One particular detail of Fleischer‚Äôs testimony may be significant. Libby had passed along that Wilson‚Äôs wife worked in the Counter-Proliferation Division of the CIA, Fleischer said. That division is located in the Directorate of Operations, the agency‚Äôs clandestine wing‚Äînot its analytic branch. That‚Äôs important, because it means the information about Wilson‚Äôs wife might have been viewed as especially sensitive‚Äîone possible reason that explains why Libby described it as ‚Äúhush-hush,‚Äù even though Fleischer said he had no idea that her status at the agency was classified.”

Note to Isokoff, where she worked isn’t at issue here, the fact is that she was not in a covert status as the time in question is at this point indisputable, as Fitzgerald could not indict anyone on that point.

Again the issue isn’t what Plame was, it’s what she DID to start the whole affair in the first place.

UPDATE: Tom McGuire notes the story surrounding “The Reporters“, from where we see the reenter of Matt Cooper from Time Magazine. Of all the reporters he is the one you hear least from and yet has - I believe - more reason to worry than most.