"Since Tenet asked for volunteers to go to Niger, and Plame offered up her lounge lizard hubby, wonder if Tenet told Novak?"
Could well be. Who knows at this point looks like everyone who know the answers to the questions is taking an exit as fast as they can.
Joe Wilson claiming he did not know who sent him and would not recognize them if he met them on the street is what removes all his credibility. Thus far I have not read anywhere anyone standing up and claiming responsibility for sending old Joe Wilson to Africa. Joe Wilson described a meeting where he claimed not to know anyone there in that meeting.
Joe Wilson has no story when those he met with are identified and come clean accepting responsibility for selecting and sending him to Africa. As far as I am concerned it could have been a sitting Senator's staff that met with Joe Wilson and gave him his marching orders.
"Joe Wilson described a meeting where he claimed not to know anyone there in that meeting."
Only a total idiot or a fabricating liar would go to Africa on this mission if such were the case. I suggest Joe Wilson is both a total lying idiot and a total fabricating liar, and he probably outed his CIA subversive wife.