[Howlin]

Since I was gone last week, how is it that the CIA "tapped" this guy to investigate something they could do themselves?

[Miss Marple]

Well, my theory is that there is a Clintonista in the CIA who wanted a "friendly" type to go to Niger. He obviously did nothing but talk to a few officials, came home, and didn't say a word about the statement in the SOU until much, much later.

[Miss Marple]

You really need to read the results of William McKinley's work on this last week. There are several threads which are important. If William doesn't have the links and post them shortly, I will get them for you later.

[NeoCaveman]

Since I was gone last week, how is it that the CIA "tapped" this guy to investigate something they could do themselves?

I don't know how. I also want to know who "tapped" this kook. He needs to be reassigned if he can't be fired.

[MJY1288]

I have looked into this guy Wilson quite a bit and the fact is he didn't geive a report in writing to the CIA, he says he gave a verbal report. I would like to see who actually sent this guy to Niger and was his mission actually to find this out.

If you do a GOOGLE search on Ambassador Joseph Wilson you can see that he was interviewed and gave several speeches before and after the SOTU address, the lead up to the war and during the war and NOWHERE does this guy talk about his mission to Niger, his first mention is the NYT's editorial and it's so vague it's unbelievable.

This guy also was a employee of Al Gore and one of his speeches before the war was titled "The Case Against Regime Change in Iraq", He sounds like another Scott Ritter to me