Oh, I don't know. Makes a swell anecdote to spice up the conversation a bit with your intimates. I'd expect nothing less from a fellow whose response to this allegedly heinous crime was this:
"My money is still on Joe Wilson being the original leaker."
Wilson allegedly talked about his wife being in the CIA, but a very much doubt he would say his wife got him the trip to Niger.
Oh, I don't know. Makes a swell anecdote to spice up the conversation a bit with your intimates. I'd expect nothing less from a fellow whose response to this allegedly heinous crime was this:
That's what makes the Wilson angle so relevant in this case. In public at least, he was doing exactly the opposite -- he was denying that she had any role in his trip at all (which later turned out to be absolutely false). His role in this story as the author of an op-ed piece for the NY Times makes the newspaper a party to the story, and therefore unable to report on it in an objective manner (not that they're objective anyway).
The other alternative I've considered here is that Miller isn't protecting any source at all. Perhaps she intended to identify Plame by name simply because a whole bunch of people in Washington already knew who she was -- and Miller is now going to jail rather than admit that her "source in Washington" just doesn't exist.
Wilson denied his wife got him the Niger gig in his book, but the senate committee found a memo written by Plame recommending him. He's a flat liar. On his website he named his wife as a CIA person--long before KR ever had a conversation with cooper. Also Aldrich Ames outted Plame 9+ years ago.
The whole whole thing is hysterical!! Typical liberals.