Excellent article.
Why isn't someone investigating all this, indeed>
Apart from the minor error that Wilson hadn't been in Niger since the 1980s (he apparently made a brief visit in 1999 - also at the CIA's behest), the article points out something I've been saying for weeks, i.e., Wilson's so-called investigation was a sham, a half-assed effort by an amateur who never should have been selected for such a politically sensitive mission. Now, Wilson's trip could have been a set-up to embarrass Bush from the outset - as the article implies - or it could have started out simply as an effort to respond to Cheney's request "on the cheap," and morphed into an anti-Bush plot as the failure to find WMDs in Iraq became a hot political issue. Either way, the CIA was playing politics with national security, and was working at cross-purposes with our elected officials. In that sense, it could be another Iran-Contra affair.
Because the CIA has been playing politics for years, and Washington doesn't want that coming out.