Was Valerie Plame the main target of the leak?

Presumably there will soon be court proceedings that will do a lot to clarify these matters.  But Justin Raimundo has a not-entirely-implausible speculation that Valerie Plame and her WMD group at the CIA might have been the real target of the leak, more than retaliation against Wilson himself.

I'm not convinced of this at all.  In fact, I think it's unlikely.  But, wheels within wheels and all that: Let Justice Be Done: Though the heavens fall… by Justin Raimondo  Antiwar.com 10/24/05.

Remember, the [Niger uranium documents] forgeries were exposed in early March 2003. The New York Times published Wilson's now famous "What I Didn't Find in Africa" op-ed on July 6, 2003 – and we now know that Scooter and the gang were homing in on Wilson even before his piece appeared. We also know that Ms. Plame wasn't the only deep-cover CIA agent outed by Scooter and the Cheney-ites: she worked through a CIA front company, Brewster Jennings & Associates, engaged in anti-proliferation work, whose activities were aborted by Plame's exposure. In one fell swoop, an entire group of undercover CIA experts on nuclear weapons proliferation was neutralized.

Presumaly the latter is speculation on Raimundo's part, although this one is quite plausible.  If anyone else at Brewster Jennings was undercover CIA, the outing of Plame obviously compromised them, as well.

The CIA, after all, hadn't even gotten their hands on a copy of the forgeries until February 2003 – a year after the administration began citing them as "proof" of Saddam's nuclear ambitions. It would have been well within the purview of Brewster Jennings & Associates to trace the origins of the Niger uranium documents back to the forgers: surely they weren't sitting on their hands in the months before columnist Robert Novak printed Plame's name and sparked a furor.

Everyone assumes Libby and his co-conspirators were really after Wilson, but this now seems unwarranted, especially in light of Fitzgerald's reported focus on the Niger uranium forgeries. If this question of the forgeries is now within Fitzgerald's purview, it opens up the possibility that the conspirators really were after Plame on her own account. If Plame and her associates were hot on the trail of whoever forged the Niger uranium documents, by neutralizing Brewster Jennings & Associates the Libby cabal closed one possible route to uncovering their schemes – and opened up another one.

Again, I'm unconvinced by this line of argument.  But I'm not entirely dismissing it, either.

Hopefully, we will soon have court-vetted evidence on the public record that will shine much more light on this dark business.