[tsomer]

self-generated by Wilson and his wife, both who would qualify as "senior administration officials."

Wouldn't Bush & co. have undermined their claim about the uranium by exposing the wife?

Consider: who's side would that knowledge tend to support, the administration, or the Wilson, who would be regarded as someone "in the know."

Also, Novak is a hack.

[tsomer]

Let me clarify the above:

The question is, who profits from the revelation that Wilson is married to a CIA agent directly involved with the report?

I would think that Wilson would gain greater credibility as someone in a position to know what he claimed to know. What would the administration have gained? It seems that this would have undermined its claims about the uranium story by showing that Wilson had an authoritative source for his.

As for Novak, he has published BS before; I consider him as reliable as Debka. Buy a box of salt.