Ms Plame's name was disclosed to the public in July 2003 by conservative columnist Robert Novak after her husband accused the Bush administration in a newspaper article of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat".
Novak never published a name, but alluded cryptically to her in mentioning the curious fact Joe Wilson's wife got him appointed to do the field survey. That's all. The MSM filled in all the blanks....and it is THEY who published her name.
Novak did pulish her name.