CIA and State saw an opportunity to take the King down. They missed. Look for Porter Goss to speed up the weeding process at CIA forthwith.
And now a question that's been bothering me for quite some time. Why would the CIA bureaucracy, obviously "outraged" at the "outing" of one of their "classified" employees, send that employees husband on a politically charged "covert" mission to Niger if they were so damned concerned about his wife being exposed to the press?
These are things I wonder about.
Not only that, he was sent on a mission which would be included under HER work....WMD. That alone I would think would be an illegal exchange of information. That's like "Here, honey. Is this what you wanted". "Yes, but make sure you don't sign a non-disclosure (because of me) and burn anything you have....receipts etc.."
Why no non-disclosure statement? Why not use an official in place that was actually associated with Niger? Why consider a professional wife of an actual U.S. Ambassador covert - she'd be outed as soon as anyone looked at him, much less her.