In case you hadn't read this one yet.......good summation, IMHO.
Mr. Wilson's official role ended when he returned from Niger in March. The CIA didn't get the Italian forgeries until October. Mr. Wilson had no access to them. He either was making up what he told Mr. Kristof and Mr. Pincus, or he had received an unauthorized leak of classified information.
Mr. Novak (the journalist who outed Ms. Plame) hasn't revealed his sources. But a fawning profile of Mr. Wilson and Ms. Plame in Vanity Fair in January, 2004, offers a clue: "Wilson was caught off guard when around July 9 he received a phone call from Robert Novak who, according to Wilson, said he'd been told by a CIA source that Wilson's wife worked for the agency."
This is one of the most astute pieces of analysis that I've seen from a reporter to date. Who in the CIA was leaking classified info to Wilson? Could it have been Valerie? Maybe, although the wording of Novak's quote doesn't support that premise. Could it have been -- as other FReepers have suggested from the beginning -- that it was Valerie's former boss who quit the agency shortly after this story first broke? Hmmmm...all roads in this sure seem to lead back to the CIA.
I think Kelly's on target. If this is what it seems to be... it stinks to high-heaven.