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That's the Plame affair. Richard Armitage leaked the information but did not know Plame was a covert CIA operative when he revealed that she recommended her husband help get information on Iraq's uranium buys.
I am not sure if V. Plame was ever a "covert operative" but in any case, at the time she was an "overt" member of the bureaucracy of the CIA, she and her former ambassador husband were both publicly listed in "Who's Who" albeit among the much lesser knowns (or unknowns to the public) who were known to the media, and others "in the know" in the Washington D.C. area.
She and her husband are vilely cunning! They went on the attack to distract attention from the nepotism of selecting her husband (for which there is considerable evidence were Political, not professional reasons). By shrilling they were "compromised" yet the incident "came to light" in response to an article her husband solicited to, and was published by the New York Times, and other places.
It is yet another example of "Lawfare" in that "Scooter" Libby was Tried and Convicted, despite clear evidence that Richard Armitage actually "leaked" the information. It was Known by the Prosecutor that R. Armitage had provided the quote to the media, to which "Scooter" Libby was responding; the Prosecutor used Armitage as a Witness against Libby!
Libby is a terrifying example of Why if Questioned by Law Enforcement Agents/Investigators/Officers" you should Insist upon an Attorney, and respond "I CanNOT recall." just as FLOTUS Clinton typically does.
Her husband, the former ambassador was devilishly clever; he had signed an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement); so, in the article he wrote he Lied! He stated that there was "No yellow cake uranium" purchased from Niger by Iraq, and subsequently shipped to Iraq. He didn't violate the NDA because he didn't write about what was in the report, he made crap up.
The Bush administration was in a quandary, because if they refuted the newspaper report, they would have been accused of disclosing National Secrets for "political reasons" an epic case of "Catch 22" in real life!
