I don't think he is dim...but, I do think that he has a bad case of BDS..which has overtaken quite a few of the MSM...and I think he thought he would make more of a name by helping to bring down Cheney...and thus, the Bush Admin.
All one has had to do is watch Hardball since the day Novak's column came out..and you could see that they are eaten up in hatred for Pres. Bush.
In fact...there was a time that I wondered if maybe Soros or someone didn't put Plame and Wilson up to doing this..and the purposely getting the "outing of a CIA agent" out as way to bring down Bush.
That's what I think. The individuals appearing "on stage" in this "scandal" are actors. Wilson set up the story, but there's a producer, playwright, director and casting director yet to be exposed.
David Corn , Washington Editor of The Nation Magazine, is at the heart of this story.
THE NATION - On the far left, The Nation magazine and its Nation Institute have been supported by Soros’ OSI (Open Society Institute). http://www.aim.org/special_report/A2089_0_8_0_C/
REPORTERS’ NOTEBOOKS (David Corn Exposed Valerie Plame's "Covert" Status!) National Review Cliff May with correspondence with David Corn 7-16-05
The Rove Scandal: Now I'm Smeared as the Leaker (David Corn sez NOT contacted by Fitzgerald!) Corn's Website 7-16-05
The Nation's persistence in driving home the leak story and Wilson's truthfulness is illustrated here.
"A Little Literary Flair"
From the July 26, 2004 issue - Weekly Standard: Joe Wilson wasn't a truth-teller.
by Matthew Continetti"ONE DAY LAST OCTOBER, Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie in tow, traveled to the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C., for lunch. It was a big day for Wilson . He was the guest of honor at a banquet thrown by the Nation Institute, which publishes the Nation, the venerable lefty weekly. Daniel Ellsberg was there. So was New Jersey senator Jon Corzine. Towards the end of lunch, plates of cold salad shunted aside, Wilson was invited onstage. Looking the part of a globetrotting former diplomat in his Zegna suit and trademark Hermès tie, he launched into a tirade against the Bush administration, which he claimed had ignored the findings of a trip he took to Niger in February 2002 to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had tried to acquire uranium there. His trip had disproved those claims, he continued, yet his findings were ignored. And when he went public with his story, the administration had tried to "silence" him by leaking to the press that his wife worked for the CIA.
There was much applause. And there was even more applause when Wilson then accepted the first-ever Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling, along with the award's $10,000 prize. (Ridenhour was the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre in 1969.)"
Also interesting is that the administration officials named in the Wilson/Plame suit are the same as those identified in Corn's article here:
The Leak and the 'Truth' 5-1-06
David Corn | "If President Bush wants to tell the truth to the American public, he can make Cheney, Rove and Libby come clean about their role in the Plame affair."
Corn's version of events in the trial yesterday:
Libby Trial: What Scooter Didn't Do David Corn 2-12-07