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circa 1997 : (VALERIE PLAME OUTS HERSELF TO A C-in-C US ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE POLITICAL ADVISOR, WILSON, THAT SHE IS IN THE CIA, ACCORDING TO LATER REPORT BY MAUREEEN DOWD OF THE NY TIMES) Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson both happened to alight in Washington, their jet-set schedules intersecting, and spotted each other across a cocktail party filled with foreigners."I saw this striking blonde," he recalled, still sounding smitten six years later. At first she said she was an energy analyst, but confided sometime around the first kiss that she was in the CIA. "I had a security clearance," grinned Wilson, then a political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe. - "Maureen Dowd : Ambassador Wilson and the Spy Who Loved Him, " NY Times, October 3, 2003

1997 : (WILSON RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS TO WASHINGTON AS SENIOR DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS AT THE NSC) That same year [1997], Wilson also came back to Washington, as a senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council...A source, however, says that Wilson was not universally popular, because of what was perceived to be too strong sympathies for the interests of the Africans and Europeans. via FR's seamole, Jan 2, 2004*
* 1990s sometime in here : (WILSON WAS A CLINTON NSC ADVISOR) then later in the 1990s as a Clinton National Security Council staffer. - "The Honorable Mr. Wilson. Frog-marching into the history books.," National Review Online, NRO, October 01, 2003, 8:38 a.m. by James Robbins

JUNE 1997 - JULY 1998 : (CLINTON ADMINISTRATION : WILSON SERVES IN NSC) Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. - Wilson's own bio (* My note: Did he begin in June or July 1997? Some sources indicate he didn't go to the NSC until July)

JULY 1997 - JULY 1998 : (CLINTON ADMIN: WILSON WAS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL) - Wilson's bio at the web site of the Corporate and Public Strategy Advisory Group

JUNE 1997 - JULY 1998 : (WILSON ON NSC ; WAS ONE OF THE PLANNERS OF CLINTON'S TRIP TO AFRICA IN MARCH 1998) Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, He was one of the principal architecs of President Clinton's historic trip to Africa in March 1998.- His own bio, http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:TjVOq4W4lssJ:www.cpsag.com/our_team/wilson.html+%22valerie+plame%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(This web site is that of the CPS : Corporate and Public Strategy Advisory Group where Wilson is listed as "part of the team")

The date Wilson claims to have gone to the NSC is curious because he gave two different start dates in different biographies- one of which would put him in the company of Democratic candidate retired General Wesley Clark.

JULY 10, 1997 - 2000 : (WESLEY CLARK BECOMES SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EUROPE - IS ALSO C-IN-C US EUROPEAN COMMAND) - Freeper Dog, http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/944219/posts?page=37#37, see also http://www.nato.int/cv/saceur/clark.htm

Thank you so much. Now that I read through this, I remember this stuff. Clinton/African tour and National Security Council are oxymora.

Joe Wilson sounded and acted like Clintons advance team, like the ones that clear cut in the "rainforest" for the best photo opportunity. More like Clinton Security Council instead of National Security Council. A travel agent.

Clintons African tour was to me his apologize for America tour.