Spouse of outed CIA officer signs on with Kerry
I was thinking that perhaps Chris LeHane got the ball rolling. He resigned from Kerry's campaign around September 15th of last year. The Wilson story broke around the 27th or 28th of September 2003. No proof, but it sounds like something LeHane would do.
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The Wilson story about the leak of his wife's name to the Press was made around the 27th or 28th of September of 2003. I was contemplating the possibility of LeHane, who left the Kerry campaign on Sept. 15th, of possibly being behind, or at least setting the whole leak thing in motion sometime before he resigned. He left the campaign in a huff. It wasn't something that was planned.
IIRC the Plame story actually broke a bit earlier than this in 2003, in July, which means if LeHane left on September 15 he would've still been with Kerry as that story was breaking.
Wilson stated in October of that year, that he was asked by Chris Lehane to become a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry campaign in May. Before that meeting, Wilson had never made any accusations about the exposure of his wife or even mentioned the sixteen words. It is known that Lehane set up the Vanity Faire article and probably the NYT article. I have no doubt that this whole thing was orchestrated by Lehane.
Lehane left the Kerry campaign because the Clintons deemed Kerry a loser and asked Lehane to move over to the Clarke campaign. Whatever transpired when Lehane left, the Clintons were behind it.