By: Greg Mitchell The Associated Press this afternoon made a key addition to its widely-circulated story earlier this day reporting on an unnamed legal source's description of parts of White House aide Karl Rove's grand jury testimony in the Plame case.
For much of the day, conservative news outlets, Web sites, and talk radio headlined one paragraph in the AP story: a report on a comment by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson (husband of Valerie Plame) on CNN on Thursday, in which he allegedly said that ``my wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.''
But this afternoon, while not deleting that quote, AP added to the original story, by John Solomon, the following:
"In an interview Friday, Wilson said his comment was meant to reflect that his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand.
"His wife's `'ability to do the job she's been doing for close to 20 years ceased from the minute Novak's article appeared; she ceased being a clandestine officer,' he said."
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