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Here's the real Grand Jury investigation in the World according to Toby Hill,

Wilson has a confidentiality agreement with the CIA about anything coming from his trip to Niger.
He comes back and gives an oral briefing, maybe an oral in someone's briefs, that he didn't find nothing and because of his great importance he thinks the President has been briefed on it.
The President gives the State of the Union and claims, BRITISH intelligence said Saddam tried to get Uranium from Africa. Keyword,"BRITISH"
Wilson gets ticked off and writes an oped in NY Times, same company Miller works for.
Wilson tried to justify his oped by claiming "whistle blowers" status but he forgot the President didn't dispute his claim he just relied on British Intelligence which is a far cry for that status. (Wilson never wrote a report so how could anyone acknowledge or dispute it?)
Wilson then realizes he just violated the agreement and planted the seeds of exposure of his wife to Miller but he failed to understand the law didn't apply to her (Plame).
Wilson tells investigators that his wife never referred him for the job and she was a covert agent that someone in the administration outed.
Case is already in the GJ but now here we are. A memo surfaces that shows Plame referred Wilson, Wilson lied. Previous testimony indicates Plame was exposed through the Media but she was not covert so, Wilson lied again. Wilson disclosed classified information about his trip to Africa even if it's about what he didn't find, federal crime.
Now Wilson is trying to find Rat allies and appearing on every talk show trying to out someone in the administration to cover his own butt because he knows the GJ is now getting to the nitty-gritty.

I think you've got it.

The key to all of this is that piece Wilson wrote. The press have been CRIMINALLY negligent in running with that piece and after kind of pushing aside the fact--it's right there on videotape--that Bush said "British intelligence..." which the Brits have stood by to this day. (Bush should never have apologized for the inclusion of those 16 words.)

Wilson wasn't there to investigate British intelligence-gathering techniques. He was there to saunter around, sip tea, chat, and come home and talk about what he saw.

But as you point out, it seems the beginning of all of this was that Wilson--ambassador to Gabon, Kerry supporter who claimed his goal was to ruin the administration--saw an opening to make himself a big man, someone who could claim he was an "insider", after all those MSM articles praising "whistleblowers". No matter that he was not an insider--he even hinted that he was so non-partisan that he was sent on behest of Cheney himself!

As recently as yesterday I was thinking the idea that Wilson is the target of Fitzgerald's investigation was silly. Now I'm not so sure. I mean, the facts are right there.