Do you know if Gold mines also produce uranium?
After only one year on the job Wilson decided to retire and go into the private sector because "we wanted to have kids, and felt that it had become very difficult to live off two government salaries." He set up a consultancy, J. C. Wilson headquarters of the Rock Creek Corporation AN INVESTMENT FIRM OF WHICH LITTLE IS KNOWN. Willisson's right-wing critics have been quick to condemn the affiliation as "musk," though Wilson does not work for Rock Creek and merely rents space and facilities there.
'I HAVE A NUMBER OF CLIENTS, AND BASICALLY WE HELP THEM WITH THEIR SORT OF INVESTMENTS IN COUNTRIES LIKE NIGER," explains Wilson. "Niger was of some interest because it has some gold deposits coming onstream. WE HAD SOME CLIENTS WHO WERE INTERESTED IN GOLD.... We were looking to set up a gond-mine company out of London."
http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/01/vanity_fairs_profile_on_joseph_wilson_and_valerie_plame.php
And oh, seems Wilson was against the war ....
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wilson had taken a measured public position—viewing weapons of mass destruction as a danger but considering military action as a last resort. He has seemed much more critical of the administration since revealing his role in Niger," Novak observes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/993741/posts
And did I mention both Plames AND her boss sorta thought this uranium thing was well, "objectionable" and how did she say......"crazy"?
Cheney and his chief of staff. Lewis Libby, visited the CIA several times at Langley and told the staff to make more of an effort to find evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and to uncover Iraqi attempts to acquire nuclear capabilities. One of the people who objected most fervently to what he saw as "Intimidation" according to one former CIA case officer, was ALAN FOLEY, then ghd HEAD OF THE WEAPONS INTELLIGENCE, Non-Pfoliferation and Arms Control Center. HE WAS VALERIE PLAME'S BOSS.
http://www.rasmusen.org/x/archives/000029.html
The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, "THERE'S THIS CRAZY REPORT" about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq. The committee found Wilson had made an earlier trip to Niger in 1999 for the CIA, also at his wife's suggestion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html