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Still sounds like Wilson and others were involved in a conspiracy to harm the Vice President of the United States, and to commit espionage against them.

Now, is Fitzgerald smart, or is he a hack? We'll find out shortly.

Fitzgerald will, undoubtably, know all these facts.

It still comes down to who outed Plame's name and her role in the debacle?

If I was in the CIA and wanted to get rid of a rogue agent who's husband was actively campaigning against the President using false information in an election year, I'd out her too.

The promised CIA follow-up came quickly. That same day officials at the agency's Counterproliferation Division discussed how they might investigate further.
An employee of the division, Valerie Wilson, suggested the agency send her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to Gabon with experience in Niger, to Africa to make inquiries.
In a memo to the deputy director of the Counterproliferation Division, she wrote: "My husband has good relations with the PM [prime minister of Niger] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity."

Mrs. Wilson would later say she asked her husband, on behalf of the CIA, if he would investigate "this crazy report" on a uranium deal between Iraq and Niger. Wilson agreed to go.

France and Joe

France and John Kerry

Joe and John.