Great work, thanks.
What you didn't point out, but which is pretty self-evident, is the fact that with his wife placed in the agency's Counterproliferation Division, former ambassador Wilson would have had inside information on the case - that is if Valerie Wilson/plame leaked confidential information.
But how would he otherwise have got that information?
His wife would always have been the prime suspect. No wonder that Wilson reacted so strongly to Novak's story. (And it didn't have anything to do with who suggested his name for the Niger trip, but all the other information that he used in the months following his African jaunt.)
PS: I haven't followed this story so closely until now. I guess my points above have been made by many FReepers before me, but your excellent timeline finally made me understand why Wilson acted as he did when Novak's piece was published .
You added what might have been a critical, personal concern
that Wilson might have had about the public knowing
that he had a personal source of classified WMD intel;
which would have compromised her "classified" status
and would have been illegal for her to do -
unless she could get him "cleared" specifically for the
issue she wanted to "expose".