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Your article provided a thorough look at the leak that led to the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame [NATION, Oct. 13], the wife of Joseph Wilson, whose investigation found there was no attempt by Iraq to buy uranium in Niger. Some say the Democrats need to appear nonpartisan and temper their rightful outrage, but in truth it is up to the Republicans to demand a special prosecutor to investigate this serious matter. After all, Plame's role was to track any person or nation that might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, something that is supposedly the Bush...
Plame was outed as part of a longtime dispute between Bush moderates and hard-liners over the strengths and shortcomings of the agency's prewar intelligence on Saddam Hussein. Wilson, who had been sent by the CIA to Niger in 2002 to check out rumors that Saddam was seeking nuclear fuel there, went public with his skepticism about that charge in a New York Times op-ed piece in July. Because Wilson's article was the first deep dent in the Bush team's claims about the justification for war, Administration officials were soon working quietly behind the scenes, steering...
Conservative columnist Bob Novak exposes Wilson's wife as a CIA officer in a piece about fallout from Wilson's op-ed. He writes, "Valerie Plame is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior Administration officials told me that his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate...
...TIME.com story puts Novak's column in context as part of a campaign against Wilson. The story says officials suggested he was picked for the Niger trip because of his wife. Four days later, Wilson says a journalist told him that Karl Rove allegedly said Wilson's wife was "fair game." But Wilson now says it was a White House source, not necessarily Rove...
...water cooler that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee and told that to a reporter. In that case, a defense lawyer might successfully argue that the leaker's motive was not to blow her cover but rather to imply nepotism in Joseph Wilson's assignment to Niger...