Can someone explain to me how having his wife's so-called covert status revealed was a way to get back at him for his negative comments on the war?
I mean, really, that has been his main whine since the Novak article came out and I have yet to read WHY having her identity exposed was such a terrible thing to do to him.
If she was really covert (which no one is still saying anymore) and serving in another country, that revelation could have meant her death. I get that. But she was driving to work at Langley every day, her picture along with his was on the cover of a major magazine and, according to what I've read, a lot of people knew who she was and where she worked.
You would think if "they" were really out to punish him, they could have thought of something that would have really hurt. No?
More than likely the CIA realized that they coudn't have an agent married to a big mouth like Joe Wilson. So they set him up for a mint tea vacation in Niger knowing that Valerie and Joe would soon be history. And, they set him up for his real punishment -- knowing that he couldn't resist any opportunity to put his foot in his mouth he is forced to speak publicly every week looking more and more like the fool he is.