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The story, actually, is whether the administration deliberately ignored Wilson's advice, ....
How could the administration have ignored Wilson's advice if they never saw his report?
Report: CIA Source on Niger Nuke Flap is a Bush-Hater (Wilson)
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"Mr. Lifesayer" was such a fine upstanding US official, that he continued his fine service by leaking intel to the press... even to the point of actually penning his own article. That's NOT responsible behavior, it's egotistical behavior.
If he genuinely thought his report's - make that alleged report since it doesn't seem he made one- his report's value was overlooked or ignored and felt that dangerous, he should have sought some other internal way to address the issue. But as an individual who isn't even in government anymore, he wasn't in a position to know what other intelligence said on the matter. He had no "need to know."
I'm still not convinced he actually went to Niger as his self-written article dwelt rather long on trying to set the stage like some sort of travel brochure; it read like he was making a sales pitch.
And what's this with the wife, a supposed "Agency" WMD operative? Valerie Plame? Why would any self-respecting weapons specialist marry a Goron? Since when do CIA staff e send out their own non-CIA spouses on info-gathering vacations?
Is her name Valerie Plame, or Valerie Wilson, or Valerie Plame-Wilson?
But I will say .. this is new .. I wasn't aware Wilson's wife sent him or worked at the agency
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
Regardless of timelines, or who knew what about Wilson and his report, there has never been a statement by Bush or any administration source that said Iraq had purchased or obtained in some other fashion uranium, from Niger or any other locale. The record shows that the statement(s) in question all profess the exact same idea: at some point, Iraq sought to obtain uranium. Their success, or lack thereof, in doing so is not pertinent now and it wasn't then.
If a killer is searching for a weapon to murder you, yet is encountering difficulty finding one, it doesn't make him any less dangerous.
“You told me to start at the beginning Vizzini. So…here I am.”