Plame scandal about to go nuclear?

Apparently a Cheney aide is cooperating with the federal prosecutor looking into the outing of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, as pay-back to her husband Joe Wilson. The critical paragraph is here:

Those close to the investigation said in June 2003, Hannah was given orders by higher-ups in Cheney’s office to leak Plame’s covert status and identity in an attempt to muzzle Wilson, who had been a thorn in the side of the administration since May 2003, when he started questioning the administration’s claims that Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S. and its neighbors in the Middle East.

Look out! Here come the fireworks!!

(via pontificator at dailyKos)