According to recently unclassified CIA documents, Valerie Plame was indeed a "covert" agent when she was outed by the Bush administration.

An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."

Plame worked as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations and was assigned to the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) in January 2002 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The employment history indicates that while she was assigned to CPD, Plame, "engaged in temporary duty travel overseas on official business." The report says, "she traveled at least seven times to more than ten times." When overseas Plame traveled undercover, "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

I, and my fellow liberal bloggers, have made this point repeatedly over the last several years but those bloggers on the other side of the ideological aisle have constantly made the case that she was not covert.

Now when I have been mistaken I have owned up to my mistakes. I just have to wonder if those right wing bloggers will have that same sense of honor.

And what of the right wing pundits? I just heard Pat Buchanan less then two weeks ago say that Plame was not covert, and there are many more who have tossed this particular Republican lie into various conversations. Will they also come forward and admit that they were either misinformed or outright lying?

Well I will certainly not be holding my breath.