[popdonnelly]

I can't believe Wilson didn't write a report. The CIA is a bureaucracy, after all. How could he get away with not writing a report?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is my question. Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about it.

So important was Wilson's fact-finding mission to Niger that he wasn't paid and he produced no written report. It actually buttressed the case that Saddam had tried to buy uranium from Niger, though Wilson was too stupid to realize it. His conclusion is contradicted by the extensive findings of the British government. (I'm not sure, but I think that's what Bush may have been referring to when he said, "the British government.") One could write a book about what Joe Wilson doesn't know about Africa. In fact, I'm pretty sure someone did: Joe Wilson.

Here is the link : http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45268

My eyebrows shot up when I read that. This whole thing is starting to smell fishier then a sardine in a sauna.

Who sent Wilson to Africa?

[syriacus]

I can't believe Wilson didn't write a report. The CIA is a bureaucracy, after all. How could he get away with not writing a report?

I'm beginning to wonder if he even left the country. :-)

  Also, I wonder if Wilson deliberately lied in his op-ed piece, hoping the Bush Administration would care enough about his lies to use their own facts to contradict him.

Then, working with the Administration's facts, the Wilsons and shady "friends" could try to determine the identities of foreign, pro-US spies.

I think they'd like to neutralize the influence of any undercover folks who agree with Bush.

I think this is bigger in scope than just Dems v Republicans.