[Just mythoughts]

It sounds about as good as him not being able to recognize on the street who it was that sent him to Niger.

[piasa]

1998 or before : (WILSON MARRIES VALERIE ELISE PLAME - ALSO, WILSON LATER SAYS THAT SOMETIME BEFORE THIS IS WHEN HE LEARNED THAT PLAME WAS IN THE CIA) - Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who *
* Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson both happened to alight in Washington, their jet-set schedules intersecting, and spotted each other across a cocktail party filled with foreigners."I saw this striking blonde," he recalled, still sounding smitten six years later. At first she said she was an energy analyst, but confided sometime around the first kiss that she was in the CIA. "I had a security clearance," grinned Wilson, then a political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe. - "Maureen Dowd : Ambassador Wilson and the Spy Who Loved Him, " NY Times, October 3, 2003
(* My note: also according to this article, Plame attends the same Episcopal church as Karl Rove, at least in 2003)