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We need to try to "follow the money" into the shadows, and there is, at least potentially, big big money to support Wilson's activities: (1) possible sources of funding and clients for his international consulting firm that has evident shadowy ties with French, Turkish, and Saudi deep pockets; (2) has Wilson benefitted financially from his jihad against the WH (his form of consulting for mineral development projects in W. Africa would certainly benefit from favorable opinions of him among French officials and businessmen who are heavily influential in that region!!!) (3) any oil-for-food money find its way to Wilson or people around him??? (Wilson sure did his damndest to help Saddam and his sons stay in power) (4) this "Proskauer Rose" law firm in which Christopher Wolf is a partner may only be an indidental connection, or it may turn out to be a major player behind the scenes (it is a huge 700+ lawyers wealthy Democrat-oriented law firm).

http://www.proskauer.com/index.html

I think at this point it's possible to demonstrate from Wilson's financial associations that he had lots of vested interests and potential incentives motivating his actions, but to prove an actual payoff will probably take an official investigation with subpoena power. However even if we stick to what's currently known from the public record, Wilson has made public statements which constitute direct evidence of a motivation to influence America's Iraq policy and to impeach Bush and make the government of Tony Blair "fall", to use a phrase from his EPIC lecture (delivered prior to Novak's article mentioning Plame, indicating that Wilson had these goals even before he alleges the White House "retaliated" against him):

Joseph Wilson EPIC Lecture 6/14/2003 Outline/Transcript

I can assure you that that retired American ambassador to Africa, as Nick Kristof called him in his article, is also pissed off, and has every intention of ensuring that this story has legs. And I think it does have legs. It may not have legs over the next two or three months, but when you see American casualties moving from one to five or to ten per day, and you see Tony Blair's government fall because in the U.K. it is a big story, there will be some ramifications, I think, here in the United States, so I hope that you will do everything you can to keep the pressure on. Because it is absolutely bogus for us to have gone to war the way we did. . .I think it probably has legs, too, because of the course the press operates on profits, and if they can make a scandal out of this they'll do it, you know, that'll be great. And you already hear people talking about the 'i' word.

Wilson may have had financial motivations over and above these political motivations, but at least with regards to his political motivations there is direct evidence from his own mouth.