[beckett]

From Vanity Fair:

In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.

I've got to disagree with Cashill. The Vanity Fair writer seems quite clearly to be referring to Kristof's wife, not Wilson's.

[Sacajaweau]

Just because Valerie is not mentioned at breakfast, it doesn't mean she wasn't there. Yes, it may have been worded that carefully so Valerie deosn't show. In other words, it could be a "half truth".

So, where was Valerie that morning??

[PresidentFelon]

Beckett,

You may be right, you may be wrong. The paragraph does not reveal whether Valerie Plame was present or not. How many times do you take your wife to an overnight event then exclude her from breakfast?

But the story by Kristof stating what he learned from "someone at the meeting" is terribly intriuging because some facts of his story allegedly came from this breakfast. Since he already mentioned Wislon as being present, if it was Wilson who was the "someone at the meeting", he would have just used his name.

If you deconstruct the following story by Kristof you get the sense that it absolutely was Valerie Plame who was the "someone at the meeting". Who else within the CIA, who was present at that meeting, would Kristof be comfortable revealing that Wilson, and maybe his wife also, was talking about this mission to a reporter.

Again, Kristof said:

Meeting Kristof column May 5, 2003: "I'm told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged."

God...would I love it if a special prosecutor could get to the bottom of this side of the imbroglio. I would love to see some presstitutes raked over the coals for their slimy, dishonest behavior.


PresidentFelon