I think they're giving Plame too much credit.....I'd sooner think that she'd play a game of "Spy and Downstair Maid" with her husband in Africa and then have to use Corn and his obscure news outlet to try to cover it up; then actually PLAN on discrediting the nation.....
Really don't think WIlson wrote the report or if he did she supplied the material thinking that no one would ever read it. When they thought "W"/WH picked up on it then the spinning began and the lies just became bigger and more outlandish. Trying to keep the investigation away for their own actions and looking at others....Typical juvenile/dRat behavior.
Would truly like to see if Mrs. WIlson joined her husband in Africa.....But since she would have had the knowledge to travel underthecovers, I doubt if we'll ever know. Regardless no more undercover trips for the Wilsons.
I'll take the tin-foil off now......(but it's the only reason I can logically think fits their actions...They're hiding something!)
"Wilson set out to discredit the charge, working largely through back channels at first to debunk it. He called friends inside the government and the media, and told the New York Times's Nicholas D. Kristof of his findings in Niger. Kristof aired them publicly for the first time in his May 6, 2003, column but did not name Wilson. This caught the attention of officials inside Cheney's office, as well as others involved in war planning, according to people who had talked with them."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444536/posts
Wilson had also been talking with Corn so it really appears that Wilson had been running the muck about his position on this administration. Now during these conversations I would bet Wilson mentioned his wife. Now Corn is in denial and Miller is in jail protecting Kristof more than Wilson himself. Now it appears to me that the MSM tried to tag Rove, because Millers in jail, but are beginning to think that Wilson is the leaker and is slowly ratting him out because they are putting him more in the center of the stories. Now one wouldn't think even Wilson could be in trouble because Plame really wasn't "covert" but Wilson's number one claim was, she never referred him, and we don't know what he told investigators. We do know that a contents of a memo, discussed today, contained details of Plames role in getting Wilson the job. I think Wilson maybe heading to jail real soon.
I think the link is pretty much on target.