[Shermy]

Yow!!!

"...A senior intelligence official confirmed that Plame was a Directorate of Operations undercover officer who worked "alongside" the operations officers who asked her husband to travel to Niger.

But he said she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment. "They [the officers who did ask Wilson to check the uranium story] were aware of who she was married to, which is not surprising," he said. "There are people elsewhere in government who are trying to make her look like she was the one who was cooking this up, for some reason," he said. "I can't figure out what it could be."

"We paid his [Wilson's] air fare. But to go to Niger is not exactly a benefit. Most people you'd have to pay big bucks to go there," the senior intelligence official said. Wilson said he was reimbursed only for expenses.

[aristeides]

If the article weren't accurate about her being an undercover Directorate of Opeations operative, I don't think Albert Gonzales would be so interested in evidence of White House employees' contacts with these two reporters.

[OldFriend]

Clearly Wilson used this as an opportunity to promote his against the war agenda. It is my understanding that he was even supporting an organization that wanted to end sanctions against Iraq and end the no fly zones protecting the people in the north and south of Iraq.