I remembered reading this a long time ago, and finally found the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81148,00.html
"The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war."
It was about that time we began seeing anonymous sources, i.e., the "ex-diplomat", a "former intelligence officer", etc., quoted in stories about cooked intelligence, forged papers, and missions at the behest of the Vice President.
When Rice, Cheney, and other officials denied seeing any such reports about forged documents, Wilson came out as the ex-diplomat and from that point on a bunch of indignant intelligence community people hailed him as a "whistleblower"--exactly as McGovern describes in the article.
There was a turning point after the SOTU address when Wilson began to call attention to the forgeries, even though he hadn't in interviews shortly afterward. I think this article is the turning point and marks about when the plan was hatched. I think that's why he gave completely contradictory interviews before and didn't dispute the SOTU 16 words until months later.
Once again, I link you all to THIS post of ravingnutter's.
READ IT ALL, even the sources:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448614/posts?page=40#40
Great catch!
It was about that time we began seeing anonymous sources, i.e., the "ex-diplomat", a "former intelligence officer", etc., quoted in stories about cooked intelligence, forged papers, and missions at the behest of the Vice President.
When Rice, Cheney, and other officials denied seeing any such reports about forged documents, Wilson came out as the ex-diplomat and from that point on a bunch of indignant intelligence community people hailed him as a "whistleblower"--exactly as McGovern describes in the article.