See my reply to Shermy below. Are you suggesting that the federal prosecutor was not investigating the leak of Plame's identity?
Was she even covert? I hadn't heard.... Perhaps they should ask the reporters that the Wilson's entertained in their home before the Novak story hit.
Right.
"What exactly am I missing here?"
You wrote:
"I thought Plame was outed by The White House? Didn't Karl Rove admit to releasing her name?"
The White House did not leak her name to Novak. It was probably someone in the State Dept. It appears many people were talking about Wilson and how he got the trip to Niger. This interest preceded Joe's New York Times article by a few months because Joe was "leaking" to the press about his trip and about how he debunked the Niger forgeries. He also stated he was working at the behest of Cheney and since he "proved" there was no "sale" of uranium, and Cheney "must have" known this, Bush lied, etc. etc. He said all these things while he was an undisclosed advisor for Kerry's Presedential campaign.
I suspect many people were talking about Joe and how he got his trip. The Senate Intelligence Committee reported that most analysts thought his trip proved nothing either way, a minority thought the info he returned increased the likelihood of Saddam's interest in uranium.
Stating Plame's name was not a crime, apparently, because Libby was charged with no such crime.
It's just a matter of time and all will be revealed.