"It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press."
I think it's more likely that Judith Miller and Valerie Plame knew each other, and that Plame was a source for Miller's WMD stories for years. Plame worked on the issues that Miller wrote about, and Washington is a small town.
I think that Miller is in jail to avoid revealing her sources... not on this issue, but for all her WMD stories. She doesn't want to burn her main CIA contact.
If anyone committed a crime leaking, my guess is it was Valerie Plame leaking top secret data to Miller for years.
Thanks for the good information re: a CIA source. You and I agree (& I preemtimvelysaid as much in my text, above) re: Wilson is most likely not being the primary source of the Judith Miller story(-ies on WMD). Its still a possibility that he was a source, and apparently he (Joe Wilson) was a source for David Corn at the Nation.
I believe i heard that Plame is still in the CIA(at a different type of job), shouldn't they have removed her totally? I mean, hell she believed the uranium story was bogus before we even investigated it, then asked that her husband go to check it out. HMMM maybe she shouldn't be in there sounds pretty incompetent to me.
So Valerie Plame was quite possibly (nd perhaps quite probably)the primary source of her own non-"outing"?
Wow! Makes sense or is at least internally consistent, is it not, thus far, with what we may (or may not) know.
Great and plausible story. Thanks for the illuminating contribution!
Yeah, and I'd like to see Plame FRY for that.