[BigBobber]

...retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, made a 2002 trip to Niger to check on reports that Iraq had secretly tried to purchase uranium ore there.

The Bush administration had used those reports to accuse the government of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein of trying to secretly build a nuclear arsenal...

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

[MEG33]

It was another report by the British we used in the UN ? Do I recall correctly?

[Paul Ross]

And there was still more wrong...than those...

Ms Plame's name was disclosed to the public in July 2003 by conservative columnist Robert Novak after her husband accused the Bush administration in a newspaper article of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat".

Novak never published a name, but alluded cryptically to her in mentioning the curious fact Joe Wilson's wife got him appointed to do the field survey. That's all. The MSM filled in all the blanks....and it is THEY who published her name.

[lepton]

...retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, made a 2002 trip to Niger to check on reports that Iraq had secretly tried to purchase uranium ore there. The Bush administration had used those reports to accuse the government of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein of trying to secretly build a nuclear arsenal...

However, Wilson confirmed that agents of Iraq were sent to Niger to purchase its primary export commodity. He later played word games and asserted that he found no evidence that Iraq had actually purchased yellowcake...which is an assertion that the Bush Administration did not make.