It's getting sickening watching the MSM treat this as though Ms Plame is like Agent 99 being hung menacingly over a vat of acid by a KAOS agent.
It's not so much Ms. Plame who's in danger - as she's in the USA, probably far from reach of would-be retalitory attacks.
It's her foreign contacts, those foreigners who were known to have met with her, possibly given her information, those only privy to information which she acquired, to which the most serious risks exist. If that compromise - regardless of who did it - causes those contacts to lose their lives, the CIA itself loses tremendously because no person on the earth will trust operatives of the agency again.
Richard Clark, Paul O'Neill, Scott Ritter, and now Joseph Wilson have all received unjust ostracism and discrediting because they wouldn't corroberate the Administration's "evidence" of WMD against Iraq when the only justification the Administration needed for action was Iraq's disregard of the original surrender treaty. That discrediting tactic is the pattern of Karl Marx Rove's employ and Conservatives can defend him in it if they wish. I won't - and personally, I'll be glad if and/or when the White House is rid of him. I would hope President Bush would then find a more honest advisor.
I don't like Washington's Plame Game one bit. IMO, all involved - Rove included - bear equal responsibility.