[Shermy]

"Valerie Plame sent her husband on taxpayer expense paid trip to Africa so he could come back and write in the New York Times that "Bush lied"."

She didn't send him. She recommended he be sent.

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She didn't send him. She recommended he be sent.

Here is the precise language from Matthew Cooper's e-mail to his editors:

"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd issues who authorized the trip."

Valerie Plame authorized the trip. So yes, she sent her husband.