We are talking about the name of an agent that was not covert... She was not covert.
Newsweek:
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.
Wolf sorta-kinda-alittlebit corrected him.