Scooter Scape Goat

Does it seem remotely strange that Scooter was only indicted after he testified to Federal Prosecutors that he learned about Plame's identity from the vice-president. Suddenly he was indicted and the entire neo-con spin community turned on him. Sacrificial lamb perhaps? Punishment for disloyalty?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/cia.leak.probe.ap