Be real. The problem is not that Wilsons wife exists or has a name, but that someone gave out info about what her job is with the CIA.The problem is also Wilson's credibility - See this thread, in which a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial from August 10, 2003 notes, "In carefully discussing what he called the hypothetical possibility his wife is a CIA employee, Wilson noted that the use of her maiden name would compromise work done before their marriage five years ago."
Again. Wilson's wife was not in the witness protection program. She was not a non-person who didn't exist. Wilson did not have deny that he had a wife, nor did she have to have an alias. The problem only arose because someone leaked the fact that this woman was an undercover CIA operative.