[roses of sharon]

I'll bet this is what happened. My quotes from vague memory of events.

Wilson smeared Cheney in his July op-ed, by saying Cheney ignored his report from Africa, and lied in the SOTU.

Cheney and his people said, "we had no report or memo, we made a general request of the CIA to check into the uranium claim, we did not know who they sent".

Cheney told Russert he did not even know Wilson.

Wilson then admitted he made no written report.

Somewhere in the gov. Bush and Cheney's people called reporters to say, "we don't know Wilson, did not request that he be sent, but his wife works there, so she probably put his name up to go".

In defending themselves against smears, they probably did not think it thru.

Who knows. Do these events sound right?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Exactly. I bet whoever leaked had no idea that they were breaking any laws.