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...Democrats and Republicans so busy covering their tracks, it is no wonder that public confidence in their judgments and motives is shaken when the nation's challenges seem only to be growing. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Matthew Cooper, John F. Dickerson, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
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...
Intelligence officials confirm to Newsday reporters that Plame works for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction in an undercover capacity. Novak tells Newsday the sources came to him with the scoop. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me." On Tenet's orders, the CIA is already preparing an initial crime report on the Plame leak for the Justice Department...
...Washington Post reports that "two top White House officials" called at least six reporters with the information on Plame before Novak's column ran. Attorney General John Ashcroft, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller are informed the next day of Dion's decision...