[GOPJ]

This is why newspaper readership is down - bloggers are asking the right questions, and MSM stenographers aren't.

(1) Why wasn't Wilson's February 2002 trip to Niger made subject to a confidentiality agreement?

(2) Did the Agency contemplate that Wilson would publicly discuss the trip at will upon his return?

(3) Did the agency anticipate that if he did so, it would attract attention to the employment of his wife by the agency?

(4) Why did the Agency select Wilson for the mission to Niger to check out such an important and sensitive matter given his lack of experience in intelligence or investigation?

(5) Was the Agency aware when it selected him for the mission of his hostility to the Bush administration?

[Dems_R_Losers]

Not only are the MSM not asking the right questions, they are still actively promoting Wilson and trashing his critics. Just this week, the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a nearly unbelievable column laughing at the notion that Wilson might have been using his wife at the CIA to go on business trips to Niger - which, of course, would make her employment status a major part of the story and thus fair game for reporting. "Who volunteers to go to Niger?" he sneered. Clearly the man had never even read the Senate Intelligence Committe report, which included Mrs. Wilson's own emails suggesting her husband for the trips because he had "an upcomimng business trip" (in 1999) and had business contacts in Niger (in 2002). Or if he had read it, he willfully disregarded it in a vain effort to brainwash his readers into believing that Wilson is a heroic truth-teller and anyone who discussed his wife's employment is a criminal.

[t2buckeye]

Excellent point! What is so frustrating is that the so-called educated journalists on CNN, etc don't ask questions that are so obvious. Just as obvious is the fact that they just don't WANT to know the answers.