Sorry, all, I should have caught the typo in that PR (remarkably enough, it appears on John 'Vichy' Kerry's own press release!). Clearly the event was in Jan. 2004, not 2003, as the primary campaign heated up in NH.
Still, everything else is relevant about the 'interesting' players that keep intersecting on this and some other stories. I do not believe I am usually partial to tin-foil theories, but I'll bet that if someone could have recorded conversations among Joe Wilson, Valeria Plame, Rand Beers, David Corn, Richard Clarke, Ray McGovern, Sandy Burglar, the VIPS crowd, and the MSM reporters who have parroted their talking points, it would blow the Democratic Party out of the water for many years to come.
These people have been up to NO GOOD. Clearly they decided after the Iraq War, if not before, that they could work together behind the scenes to orchestrate an all-out assault on the Bush administration, using Joe Wilson's attack on the Niger uranium story as a starting point.
As it is, we have to settle for piecing together the various intersecting pieces of this puzzle from public sources.... would be great if the Special Prosecutor were pursuing any of these people, but I'm not holding my breath.
No worries; I missed the typo, too, until Shermy caught it and pointed it out. But the upshot that Wilson had ties to the Kerry campaign is still valid, and his earlier ties to the Al Gore campaign are also suspicious.