this was published
Remember this paragraph:
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me that Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counterproliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
Plame's career was destroyed. We don't know, but there is a real possibility that by outing her Novak caused the death of some her sources - from the moment of this column it became possible for those she was trying to track under NOC - non official cover - to "walk back the cat" and identify all sorts of people with whom she had interacted.
The only one in the Bush administration ever punished for this was Scooter Libby.
When Plame and her husband tried to sue for damages, the government shut them down by asserting state secrets privilege.
In light of issues like state secrets today, the trial of Bradley Manning, the imprisonment of John Kyriakou, the attempts to force Edward Snowden into US custody to be able to prosecute him, and the fact that today is the anniversary of this event, as is noted in this tweet:
I thought we should take the time to remember.