Despite the title of this piece ("One very good reason why Karl Rove might get indicted")
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/lawrence-odonnell/the-one-very-good-reason-_3769.html
O'Donnell actually brings up a huge defense barrier I didn't realize before: you can only break this law if you are an "authorized" person -- if you have a security clearance that gave you access to the information. If Rove didn't have that clearance -- and under normal circumstances, a political operative like him would not -- then he can't commit the crime no matter who he told. The crime would have been committed by whoever told him.
But although that's a big a legal breakfire, politically, in terms of wounding the administration, it might actually make things worse for them -- it might mean the chain keeps going up.
Besides the fact that the President said on the record that he'd fire *everyone* involved in the leak. Not that he would ever keep his word unaided. But the press could conceivably make him eat that promise by repeating it enough, just like they made his Daddy eat the one on taxes.
Michael