For some time now, I have wondered how Rove and the White House got the information that Plame was a CIA agent.
Bloomberg reports:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IJTOJ70D9L35
The memo, prepared by the State Department on July 7, 2003, informed top administration officials that the wife of ex-diplomat and Bush critic Joseph Wilson was a CIA agent. Seven days later, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was publicly identified as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.