The initial "crime," however parsed by statute, exposed more than Valerie Wilson as an undercover operative. It revealed her "employer," a consulting firm named Brewster-Jennings, & Associates, a CIA front developed over the years and used by a number of different covert agents, whose intelligence has been compromised.

This one item means the leak WAS inviolation of Foreign Intelligence and Identities Act, because she is listed as working there, and NOT for CIA.

The Unnoticed Piece of the Plame Puzzle