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I am so glad I read the whole article. It is very interesting:

The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, "there's this crazy report" about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq. The committee found Wilson had made an earlier trip to Niger in 1999 for the CIA, also at his wife's suggestion.

The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong."

"Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have "misspoken" to reporters. The documents -- purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq -- were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.

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Well, Plame exposes herself right off the bat by betraying that the report on seeking uranium from Niger is "crazy". This again buttresses my suspicion that it is she who was the anonymous "CIA official" that peddled the Wilson version of the story to foreign press like the BBC.

We've been pointing out since he said it that Wilson was lying about the forged documents havig anything to do with him. The media would and should have seen it, too, if they weren't in the business of printing democratic talking points straight from the fax machine to the front page (incidentally, I see this landed on page 9 of today's least read day of the week issue--though in fairness to the day of the week, the report was just issued yesterday).

I say again, I hope to see both of these appalling people "frogmarched" (to coin Wilson's charming term) off to prison someday. I really do.