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No. It's immaterial. There is no crime in Cheney telling Libby about Plame, whether Cheney used a name or not. Both have clearance.
The purported original crime was in giving out information that could id Wilson's wife as CIA to the press. We could argue for years (and have) about whether she was undercover and whether the leakers knew it and leaked it anyway.
But now the case seems to turn on misstatements to the grand jury.
And the significance of the NYT story goes to motive. Libby has already essentially admitted talking to reporters about Wilson's wife. What he seems most interested in doing is shielding Cheney, not necessarily from proseuction, but from being tied to the Plame leak in any way.
It looks like Libby's loyalty has done him in.
In any case, to return to the original topic, Tenet's alleged comments to Cheney about Plame's CIA employment don't constitute a "leak."
The game of the day is blame the CIA. But I bet you won't find Tenet's name under the "v." on this week's indictment.

I have a hard time believing that Libby could be indicted for perjury for not mentioning something that was not in itself a crime or part of a crime. On top of that, he could just claim he forgot; Judith Miller can't remember who she first heard a lot of things from, either. No one's talking about charging HER with perjury.

It's not the "game of the day" to blame the CIA, we've been discussing it for over a year here on FreeRepublic. (You wouldn't know that though since you're a newbie) We can't help that Rush and others in the media are just now starting to report what Freepers uncovered over a year ago!