Both...

She was a CIA operative and therefore, irregardless of the job, she whoudl have been protected...

The way it looks is that even though this trial will probably go many years with the administartion sandbaggin' and callin' in political markers from the folks they have appointed, the rerason for filin' now was statutes of limitation which were about to run out...

Good on her... Bush/Rove done her wrong and we don't even have a clue as to how many other operatives and cooperatives were compromised is their little ball game but, hey, Lee Atwater would have been ashamedly proud of this little dirty trick...

Bobert