Victoria Toensing article on Comey, Patrick Fitzgerald and Scooter Libby from 2018. Toensing " drafted and negotiated the elements of that law when I was chief counsel for Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.). Plame did not fulfill the requirement that she had to be “serving outside the United States” or had done so “within the last five years.”"
It seems that the playbook hasn't really been updated (from the timeline link):
· The Washington Post refrained from expressing shock at a "leak." But The Post had contributed to the fray by reporting on Sept. 28, 2003, that "two White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife . . . to undercut Wilson's credibility." This article was the likely impetus for the other papers' editorials. (wrap up smear - page 3)
Link to The Hill article: http://archive.ph/Z4IPa
Link to factual Fitzgerald timeline - http://archive.ph/DtDlP