Besides the fact that the dame wasn't 'outed' in the first place... OHmmm,maybe because they couldn't take down Bush, Cheney and Rove through getting ARmitage?
They weren't after truth, remember, they were concocting, fabricating, lying and anything else they could get away with to get at Bush, Rove and Chaney - using Libby as the pawn
“Novak said part of the reason he wrote about Wilson and his wife was that he found Wilson unpleasant and a “questionable choice” to look into the Niger claims after he met him while both were waiting to go onto a television interview program.
“He was saying that things had been done in a superior way in the National Security Council before in the Clinton administration,” Novak recalled. “I thought it was sort of an obnoxious performance.””