Indeed. Or perhaps Mr. Babin has bought into a canard.
Jed Babin hit a home run with his discussion of the "anomalies." And, contrary to his assertion that it's not an "anomaly," I think "not knowing" who hired Joe Wilson to perform this particular mission is probably the biggest anomaly of them all. It has a smell of plausible deniability to it -- why?
Speaking for myself, I don't think the CIA (even the PC among 'em) would be so stupid as to use Joe Wilson as their main source of intel. It's preposterous. However, if we postulate that Mr. Wilson was nothing more than an unwitting designated bozo, chosen to divert attention from the person who was really doing the investigation ...
Well, then all of those anomalies begin to add up. For example, no secrecy agreement means the CIA wanted him to blab, as they knew he would.
Why?
Well, perhaps the target isn't really Iraq alone, or even at all -- maybe it's Iran, which has admitted it has enriched uranium; or North Korea.
There's more to this....