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This whole Niger Uranium affairs stinks. Niger is one of the top uranium mining countries of the world. Does the CIA expect us to believe they have no operatives in that country who can tell us where their uranium exports are going? That the British and Israeli intelligence agencies can't tell us what's going on?

They want us to believe there is so little information about uranium exports from Niger, that the CIA sends the HUSBAND of one of their cubicle dwelling analysts to find out whats going on? Someone with no expertise in this area? Someone who does not even sign a confidentiality agreement? In my non-defense line of work you don't get a contract to CLEAN TOILETS without signing a confidentiality/nondisclosure agreement. What the hell is going on at the CIA?

What if this amateur tipped off the wrong people while stumbling around overseas? What if he published an article about this covert work in the NY Times (whoops, he already did that).

Who hired this loose cannon? How much did Wilson get paid? What damage did he do to our wartime anti-terror operations by revealing his mission? These are the important questions that no one in the MSM is asking.

Does the CIA expect us to believe they have no operatives in that country who can tell us where their uranium exports are going?

We have an ambassador to Niger who submitted a report. The CIA also sent Gen. Fulford of the Southern command (?) who submitted a report. Who knows what their operatives did? The French companies and the U.N. regularly submit reports. Your problem is not the lack of reports but rather the content; you don't like their conclusions.

They want us to believe there is so little information about uranium exports from Niger, that the CIA sends the HUSBAND of one of their cubicle dwelling analysts to find out whats going on? Someone with no expertise in this area? Someone who does not even sign a confidentiality agreement?

More ignorant bias. Wilson knows a great deal about what's going on and had been to Niger most recently in 1999 at the request of the CIA. That his wife was a CIA analyst and covert operative was a plus, not a negative.

These are the important questions that no one in the MSM is asking.

You ought to be asking yourself about your objectivity.

BigBobber...you really nailed it. I've been asking the same questions myself and nobody is providing the answers. Why didn't the CIA have its own experts on the ground in Niger? Why did they turn to a non-expert, an ex-Ambassador, to take a short trip to Niger? Who would realistically expect a newcomer, totally inexperienced, to uncover relevant material in such a short time?

Why would the same person come home and apparently not provide a highly classified report on his trip? Why would an employee of our intelligence agency publish an article in a magazine about his "findings"? All the companies I've worked for would have fired me on the spot for such an impropriety.

The fact that the CIA allowed this incompetent to go public after his trip is the REAL STORY here, the story that nobody is covering. The CIA clearly is fighting Bush and serious house cleaning is required. Bush should have taken firm control of the CIA when he was inaugurated in 2001.

"who hired this loose cannon"

If you are of a suspicious and partially paranoid mind like me, you might think that the whole thing was a scam to set up the Bush admin. They could always claim that no one could investigate Wilson's wife for national security purposes. The Bush admin would be between a rock and a hard place. With liberal Big Media cheering them on, the special prosecutor would go after the evil, war-mongering Republicans with claws bared. The CIA anti-Bushies and the Wilsons could sit back smug and satisfied, laughing at all the harm they could do. And actually their plan is working quite well. Wilson is the perfect actor and media whore for this operation. You're right, under normal sane circumstances he should never have been considered for anything except drinking mint tea at diplomatic receptions. But if you're overly suspicious like me, his appointment makes sense.