I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Joe Wilson says he got the gig to go to Niger in 1999 because he had business there. Val Plame told her bosses he would be the best person for the Yellowcake investigation because he had "friends and contacts in the Niger government and the uranium business."
Joe Wilson's official biography stops in 1998 when he left the U.S. government. What has he been doing for a living since then? What was his "business" in Niger? Who are his "friends?" Who does he know in the uranium business?
Who was the last American to see Saddam Hussein in 1991 before the Gulf War began?
Joe Wilson.
Connect the dots.