Well, the ridiculous defense that "Valarie Plame was not covert" has finally — finally — been handed a death blow:

Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House critic Joe Wilson, really had covert status when she was outed to the media in July 2003. But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done "covert work overseas" on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA "was making specific efforts to conceal" her identity, according to newly released portions of a judge’s opinion. (A CIA spokesman at the time is quoted as saying Plame was "unlikely" to take further trips overseas, though.)

But sadly, the wingnuts will keep attempting to argue that she was not covert, including this wingnut — he suggests that "carrying out covert work overseas" is not the same as "serving" covertly overseas.  Um, okaaaaay.  Any port in a storm.