Wilson was, evidently, acting first and foremost as an agent of the DNC and the leftist media, and only used the CIA connection Valerie Plame got him as a kind of cover and to give his planned lies an official veneer.
I imagine that if all the facts came out, we would find that the proprietors of the New York Times took part in the planning meetings which set up this propaganda ploy, at the highest level, and that that is why their own reporter is currently sitting in jail, attempting to continue to conceal the fact that the Times was at the bottom of this whole leftist-instigated plot from the beginning.
It's their standard modus operandi. A small group of high media officials meets with a small group of Democrat politicians and plots out what the next propaganda assault will be. In this case, a double assault--that Bush "lied" about WMDs, and as a fallback when Novak let most of the cat out of the bag that Rove breached security.
What's evident is that these media slime gave Plame's name to Rove, not vice versa. It's becoming an old media trick: phone up your political enemy, have a brief conversation pretending to let him set the record straight, and then lie about what he said.
I believe the administration thinks that that some of these folks might have broken some laws and they need to feel this.
This is why Miller sits in jail.