Classified State Department memo will make it harder for officials ... to claim they didn't realize the identity of CIA officer Plame was sensitive

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "
The government memo cited in today's Wall Street Journal seems to support the idea that Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent was indeed regarded as sensitive within the government, despite some assertions that her cover was no big deal any more. (Her company's cover was another matter entirely). Money quote from the WSJ:

A classified State Department memo that may be pivotal to the CIA leak case made clear that information identifying an agent and her role in her husband's intelligence-gathering mission was sensitive and shouldn't be shared, according to a person familiar with the document... The memo's details are significant because they will make it harder for officials who saw the document to claim that they didn't realize the identity of the CIA officer was a sensitive matter. Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, may also be looking at whether other crimes -- such as perjury, obstruction of justice or leaking classified information -- were committed... The paragraph in the memo discussing Ms. Wilson's involvement in her husband's trip is marked at the beginning with a letter designation in brackets to indicate the information shouldn't be shared, according to the person familiar with the memo. Such a designation would indicate to a reader that the information was sensitive. The memo, though, doesn't specifically describe Ms. Wilson as an undercover agent, the person familiar with the memo said."