Although I gleefully followed the DUmmie FUnnies recount of Fitzmas/Hoaxmas and the non-indictment of Karl Rove, I haven't really followed the whole Plame-Gate story very closely because I considered it so much B.S. So let me see if I have this straight - A CIA agent, Plame, who may have been covert at one time but wasn't at any pertinent times to this affair, pushed to get her husband ,Wilson, appointed to a mission to Niger to investigate whether Saddam tried to buy yellow cake. Wilson, a now well-known political activist for the left, finds nothing to the yellow cake claim (after thorough investigation conducted from his hotel lobby). (Side note-Brit intel stands behind the yellow cake claim).
When Novak revealed that Plame was Wilson's wife and a CIA agent, people got their panties in a wad because you can't reveal a CIA agent's identity, so Novak's source broke the law. Only Plame wasn't covert at the time so no law was broken. But Scooter Libby, Cheney COS, was indicted because he allegedly lied to the special prosecutor who was investigating the non-crime. Now Novak's article confirms that Rove was a corroborating source, as the prosecutor already knew and didn't consider significant. But is it news that Wilson outed his own wife? I've been hearing this for a while. Somebody set me straight on this and other pertinent details. Thanks
Actually Wilson found that there WAS substance to the Niger yellowcake claim. And that's what he reported at the time. It was only later when it became politically expedient to do so that he started going around de-bunking his own report.
Joe Wilson is an opportunistic liar through and through.
You have it almost right. Wilson's trip to Niger did convince him that Saddam was trying to obtain yellow cake and he told the CIA that when he returned. This was an oral debriefing. Later Wilson wrote this big op-ed article about there being no attempt by Iraq to obtain uranium. A Senate committee later found unanimously that Wilson lied in his op-ed, that he did orally report that he found paydirt in Niger. But the media routinely ignores this established fact. Very frustrating. The American MSM is simply not reliable anymore. Makes room for the blogosphere and pajamhadeen.
"But is it news that Wilson outed his own wife? I've been hearing this for a while." He only "outed" her in the sense that her name was listed in his entry of Who's Who. Other than that, it is a little misleading to suggested he "outed" his wife, based on what is in this article.