LOL
The Bush administration isn't seeking to prevent Wilson from doing a damn thing. The fact is Wilson did withhold additional information when he wrote his famous op-ed....the "It was I, Joseph Wilson, who went to Niger" op-ed.
What a buffoon.
The fact is, Wilson and his wife were very open about her employer, and a dem told Cliff May about Plame before Novak's column was written. The dem was trying to convince May that Wilson wasn't a partisan hack (wrong--he is) and as proof this dem offered up Plame working at the CIA as evidence of how patriotic they are.
Really, nobody in this administration was out to reek revenge upon the idiotic (and treacherous) Wilsons.
And you know this because...? You've personally talked to White House staff lately?
<The fact is, Wilson and his wife were very open about her employer, and a dem told Cliff May about Plame before Novak's column was written.
Whose fact is this? Bob Novak's? Now there's a reliable source for you, a guy with no particular reason to be somewhat biased in his recollections.
Really, nobody in this administration was out to reek revenge upon the idiotic (and treacherous) Wilsons.
At this point, it really doesn't matter. What matters is that a CIA operative has been exposed either through the malice or the sheer incomptence of administration officials and/or Bob Novak.
The CIA isn't going to simply let this one go. They can't afford to, because the excuse "oh, everybody knew that she worked for the CIA, so it's ok that her cover's been blown" ain't gonna work with any field agents.
Oh, and by the way. Please explain what either one of the Wilsons have done that could even remotely be described as 'treacherous'. Ie: of treason.