Didn’t VP Cheney’s Chief of Staff (Scooter Libby) do time in prison for lying or misrepresenting during an FBI investigation of an outed FORMER CIA operative who’d been working in Langley for five plus years (Valerie Plame), while this is about a covert operative who has been in the field up till the publication of this story.
If Sessions should ask for a special prosecutor, like they did for Plame, this one would be a slam-dunk.
The special prosecutor could do it on a small budget and short time-line.