This doesn't make sense.
Nothing much about this thing makes sense. I think Tenet was painted into a corner - or perhaps he knew exactly where the investigation would go, even though he knew he would have to quit as a result. It was worth it to him to send Plame down in flames, after she set him up with her husband's phony-baloney trip.
If Tenet was the leaker and Plame was not covert, this investigation has been a total waste of time and money unless Joe Wilson gets frog-marched out of his wife's CIA office in Langley.
I doubt Tenet was even in the loop.
One thing I'm clear about in all this ridiculous beltway crap: no administration runs the goverment. The bureaucrats do.
I saw some idiot, probably Mort Kondrake, on TV saying, "well, Bush didn't want another fight with the CIA".
What? I don't know about you, but if I was the president I wouldn't need to fight with any executive branch agency. I'd tell them what to do and if they didn't I'd fire them. Screw everyone else. And I wouldn't waste my time with the appointed short-term folks. I'd fire the career a-holes and even the janitors if I had to.
Let them sue me. I'll take through Congress all the way to the Supreme Court.