[RACooper]

I'm sorry but I have to disagree - and I'll try and do so in as a completely non-biased and neutral way as possible...

While Plame did no fit the strict/legal definition of a "covert" operative, the revealing of her identity did compromise a CIA 'front company' which then compromised any of the operations and operatives (covert and otherwise) connected to that company - so while strictly speaking the letter of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, there is some legal wrangling over whether the spirit of the Act was infringed upon.

However all that aside, the revealing of her status as an agent is a clear violation of the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, since her status as an agent and the CIA's front company wasn't declassified - as to who is accountable in the chain of disclousure (Rove, Cheney, Libby)that is another arguement for the courts.