From disclosure that the CIA was running an active disinformation op and "silent coup" against the WH and Cheney in particular. Wilson was sent out with the mission of first inducing reliance upon and then discrediting the African uranium reports. Like the forgeries themselves, he was intended to suck people into relying on his actual substantiation of Iraqi uranium scouting in Afrida, and to then repudiate it and pull the rug out from under them and discredit them. The CIA sent him. The CIA let him lie in the NYT. The CIA very reluctantly on a Friday evening issued a statement contradicting Wilson. The CIA first supported the 16 words, but then withdrew the support when it was completely unnecessary to do so, severely discrediting the President. The CIA resisted decassifying NIE portions that discredited Wilson, but was obviated by the President's declassification decision - a decision that was kept from the CIA at first. It was Tenet who first said Iraqi WMD was a slam dunk but later allowed Wilson to spread his lies, and later demanded a DOJ criminal prosecution over the WH's rebuttal of Wilson's lies. The target of that referral was Cheney.
The MSM has been quoting officials of the CIA from the beginning. That is why they stick to the story. They don't want to believe otherwise and will not bother to dig the information. There will have to be something to discredit the very people leaking the info, or proof identifying the actual leaker of this bogus story.
One fact still remains - Joe Wilson has never been put under oath to testify to any of this. Why this special protection from the Justice Dept. and Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald??? Valerie recommended her husband because he was hot to do it. To think there are citizens who have gone to jail for perjury on far less serious matters. Perjury is perjury and it subverts our legal/justice system. Let's get ol' Joe under oath. Now!