This could not have been said any better or clearer. Way too much secrecy at CIA and other organizations - this is no longer the Cold War and some of these "secrets" so called, should see the light of day. Flame is one of them, you might learn this was all a plot hatched at the CIA to bring down Bush. Wilson and Flame are no fans of the Bush Admin. I read somewhere that Wilson was not even paid for his trip to Niger - he is such a patriot!! Who would travel around the world on their own dime, if there wasn't some ulterior motive? I want him under oath on the stand.
He also said he was sent at the request of CIA and State Department.
http://www.politicsoftruth.com/interviews/PBS_Frontline.html
...The CIA called me, and I met out there with a group of analysts from the broader intelligence community on uranium, on Niger and on Iraq. … I met with maybe 10 people from not just the CIA, but also the other parts of the intelligence community. The State Department Intelligence and Research Office was the group of people that were out there as I recall...
Didn't need to. Talked to the State Department. My trip out there, by the way, was not a CIA trip. My travel was reimbursed by the CIA, but I made it very clear before I went out there that I don't do clandestine. I can do discreet, but I don't do clandestine. As a consequence, before I went out, I also briefed the State Department.
Reading the interview, it seems as if they all went out of their way NOT to have a wriiten record of this. Not signing a confidentiality agreement may have been by design.