This reminds me of a magician who gets his audience to watch his face or his hat so they won't concentrate too hard on his hands where the trick is done.
Whatever finally comes out about the Plame outing, it will pale in comparison to the great damage done by an unnamed speechwriter who put those 16 words in Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.
That's where the investigation should have been centered, IMHO.
Instead we are told it's all about politics.
Yeah, sure.
You're wrong, of course.
The Wilsons were up to something with this Niger trip and if the sixteen words (which the British still stand by) had not been in the speech they would have found another hook to hang their hat on.
BTW, Wilson was in the media in the months following the SOTU speech and said not one word about any concerns he later claimed to have about the uranium aspect. The fact is, he lied about the context and scope of his trip completely. The President and his aides did not.
Surely, you are not contending that those 16 words weren't true?