BY BILL LAMBRECHT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, one of Sen. John Kerry's foreign policy advisers, has special incentive for wanting President George W. Bush out of office.
.....For Wilson, the connection between the administration's misstatements and the outing of his wife, Valerie Plame, is reflected in the title of his book: "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity."
In an interview, Wilson added this assessment of whoever is responsible: "The most insidious kind of traitors," he said, borrowing a line from the first President George Bush.
.... Kerry's key advisers on Iraq include several Clinton administration stalwarts: ex-national security advisers Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger; former assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke; and former defense secretary William J. Perry.
Wilson is among about a half-dozen other, unpaid foreign policy advisers who meet twice weekly with Kerry aides. He also served as one of Kerry's surrogate speakers across the country during the primary campaign and likely would be in line for a high post in a Kerry administration. ...
In other words, shouldn't AP's story title read, "Kerry Advisor Probed..."?
So Berger was looking over intelligence from 1999.
Joe Wilson, at the suggestion of Valerie Plame, was sent to Niger in 1999...