Author, Columnist guest on FOX as a expert?
Right. That was a quote from Nicholas Kristof -- the reporter at the NYT to whom Wilson leaked his "findings" about uranium and Niger.
At the time Wilson leaked to Kristof, he did use Kristof to keep his name anonymous.
But Wilson "used" Kristof in another way too -- to peddle disinformation that Kristof is now having to retract, albeit in a half-baked way -- "Kristof: 'I might have gotten it right!'"
Of course Wilson's fatuous mug, willingly splashed across the cover of Vanity Fair, completely blows any claim he might've had to being a "private citizen."