These "leaks" came after Novak's article. The Time mag article reminds of Tenet's statement about Wilson not mentioning "forgeries" or documents at all in his 2002 oral report. Which is interesting, Wilson's NYTimes piece doesn't mention anything about documents or forgeries. But before that he related "anonymously" to Pincus, Kristof, the Independent and Rangwala that he proved the documents were forgeries, though American intel did not have them at the time. He usually claims now that he gathered information about the "signatures" which would be necessary. The agents who interviewed him say he didn't say anything about that. However, even if US didn't have the documents, they had reports mentioning the names on the documents. Which then folds into the issue whether his wife told him about them.
His statements about proving the forgeries could be just bragging, taking credit for what the IAEA reported in March 2003. Or it could be something more.