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I am convinced the whole Plame affair has been a CIA project to undercut the President from the very start. I know that opening sentence makes me sound like a member of the Conspiracy of the Month Club, but the more I see what's coming out in dribs and drabs I think it was well-planned and excuted operation from the get go.

I think the CIA fed bad info to the administration from the very beginning knowing it would help convince the President to invade Iraq. The CIA, and much of the State Department, are not friends of President and would go to almost any lengths to bring about his downfall.

The plan was to provide the false information and send Wilson on his fake trip to Niger. Phase two was to leak the Plame information to the press then blame it on the administration.

President Bush bought the bad information lock, stock and barrel, especially since the same information was coming from a number of other countries. All his enemies in the CIA and State had to do was wait for the US to be fully involved in Iraq and then come forth with the charge that the President had made them give him bad information so he could justify an invasion of Iraq.

At the same time, out comes the story that Wilson had even gone to Niger and reported back to the VP himself that the charges of yellow cake purchases were not true.

Meanwhile along comes Plame screaming that she had been outed, in violation of a specific law, and all hell breaks loose. To make it even more juicy to the MSM, always on the standby to assist the Lefties, the leak is cited as a dirty trick by the administration. The Plame leak is just one more piece of the puzzle, each piece being dependent on the previous pieces.

So now there is BS coming at the administration from several directions and trying to handle each piece as it comes out of nowhere to blind side them is like play Whack-a-Mole.

The Left knows that President Bush is an honest man, one of the main reasons he is so hated by them, and if they make a big enough issue of the situation he will appoint a special prosecutor.

The prosecutor knew within days that the leak had come from State and were in no way designed to discredit Wilson. He never even undertook to fulfill his original charge of determining if the leaking of Plame's identify was a crime.

I know it sounds convoluted, but it sure makes all the pieces of the puzzle fit together nicely.

Oops, gotta run, the sheet metal shop just called to tell me they've completed the update to my tinfoil hat.

Not convoluted. It is actually pretty simple an operation and is consistent with CIA maneuvers of the past. The CIA does most of its recruiting at Harvard and Yale and similar institutions and gets Harvard type personalities and ideologies. CIAs estimates of the USSR were worthless and President Reagan knew that. He bypassed CIA and set up his own outfit. If he had not done that the USSR would probably still be there and geographically probably a much larger presence.

Classic CIA was the annual estimation of the Soviet economy that always showed the it at about 50% of the American economy and gaining on us at around 10% per year, all the way back to the beginning of the agency. If the Soviets were at half the level of the US in 1950 they would have surpassed us by Reagan's time, given their relative rate of improvement as "measured" by the CIA. After The Fall it became apparent that the USSR was never close to 50% of the US and the gap was growing larger every year. But the mindset at the CIA is socialist/Harvard and the facts must be massaged or replaced to fit the story line. With the reality of Civil Service this problem cannot be fixed by any president. He can change the boss but he cannot weed out all the moles and rats in the field and primarily at the desks. Reagan was aware, bypassed CIA and prevailed. Bush trusted and got burned. I am not sure he even understands whence the scars.