Crime or not, did "the leaker" actually "leak" anything?

[tylerdurden]

Reading Novak's original article, I don't see how we can assume that the "source" actually leaked Plame's identity.

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Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report.

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He doesn't say that the "senior administration officials" told him that Plame was Wilson's wife.

Ignore the fact that Rove now says that Novak told Rove that Plame was Wilson's wife, then Rove told Novak that Plame got the job for him. When this first blew up, all we had was Novak's article. How does it alone justify all of this dustup? Is there more that I missed somewhere?