From David Corn's defense of Wilson in The Nation, 7/17/04
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1558
"The [Senate] report also notes, 'On February 19, 2002, CPD hosted a meeting with the former ambassador, intelligence analysts from both the CIA and INR [the State Department's intelligence unit], and several individuals from the [Directorate of Operations'] Africa and CPD divisions. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the merits of [Wilson] traveling to Niger. An INR analyst's notes indicate that the meeting was "apparently convened by [Wilson's] wife who had the idea to dispatch [him] to use his contacts to sort out the Iraq-Niger uranium issue.[sic, "] The former ambassador's wife told Committee staff that she only attended the meeting to introduce her husband and left after about three minutes.'"
I've heard about this memo before, I think from Jeff Gannon at Talon News, but had not seen it attributed to the State Dept INR.
Wilson lies again. He just wrote to the Committee that she didn't attend the meeting and only escorted him there. How do you "avoid the appearance of conflict of interest" when your wife is the one introducing you to the individuals considering you for the trip? Why, if she wasn't recommending him for the position, was she even introducing him? Why was she even there?
Does Wilson actually believe that his wife's memo didn't have anything to do with his being considered for the job? Who the hell