CIA suspected Plame outted nine years ago

Is DailyKos crying wolf over Rove allegedly outing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative?

According to this article, Ex-Prosecutor: Plame Leak Not Illegal, the outing happened 9 years ago:

In fact, the myth that laws were violated in the Plame case began to unravel in October 2003, in a column by New York Times scribe Nicholas Kristof, who explained that Valerie Plame had abandoned her covert role a full nine years before.

"The C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given [Plame's] name [along with those of other spies] to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994. So her undercover security was undermined at that time, and she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons."

Kristof also noted that Plame had begun making the transition to CIA "management" even before she was outted, explaining that "she was moving away from 'noc' – which means non-official cover ... to a new cover as a State Department official, affording her diplomatic protection without having 'C.I.A.' stamped on her forehead."

Here is the column by Nicholas Krisof called Secrets of the Scandal, a liberal writer for the New York Times. This is my recommended daily reading. :)

Update: There's another post on Newsmax called "Prosecutor: Karl Rove Not Target of Probe" today (pointed out by The Museum of Leftwing Lunacy).