Plame not a clandestine officer?

On Wolf Blitzer yesterday, infamous Joe Wilson said on TV that his wife was not a clandestine officer when Bob Novak's article was written! When asked whether he believed that Karl Rove committed a crime, Wilson sidesteps by pinning that belief on the CIA's decision to send the matter to the Justice department.

Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't that mean that Karl Rove did nothing wrong, then, in mentioning the background of the Wilson trip to Matt Cooper?

Also in USA Today, there's an article emphasizing that an agent is only covert if (s)he's been out of the country on a long term assignment during the last 5 years. It also mentions that even Joe Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth, makes no mention of Plame being out of the country after 1997.

Somewhere, someplace, I'm thinking that Karl Rove is laughing his head off. Somewhere, someplace, MoveOn and its liberal supporters are getting egg on their faces.