I came across an interesting tid bit of information. Apparently the call for the appointment of and independent council investigation was going no where until the justice dept received a request from the CIA for an investigation into the leaks.
It strikes me as unusual since it has long been assumed that no law was broken in revealing Plame's name, since she had already been outed by Aldrich Ames. So, is it possible that they were looking for a leaker within the CIA?
That's what I think, and I further speculate that the leaker had leaked real information detrimental to national security--not just this irrelevant, non-criminal crap about the desk jockey Plame.