[concerned about politics]

Rove laughed at reporters outside his home today when he was asked if he was going to quit his job. Bush seems quite content, too.
If you look at the entire Niger story, it points to espionage. It was all left wing - every actor in the whole trip. The left was interfering with U.S. national security.

[syriacus]

If you look at the entire Niger story, it points to espionage. It was all left wing - every actor in the whole trip. The left was interfering with U.S. national security.

Perhaps this all got started because Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were hoping to "out" some good-guy informants.

Perhaps Wilson's lies were published, not so much to discredit Bush, but to get this Administration to contradict Wilson's lies.

Perhaps Wilson and Co. were hoping to glean info from the Administration's contradictions

Perhaps they were hoping to determine what people were the real sources of the true information about Saddam shopping for yellowcake.