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Between the Beeb post excavated by mewzilla, Shermy's flash of insight and Dog's discovery of the six day interval between the Beeb's story and Novak's, I'm prepared to wager that the "former diplomat" and the "CIA source" are, in fact, a husband & wife tag team working the media circuit for the benefit of the DNC.

Indeed, I'll give odds...

Here's hoping their miserable careers should come to a sudden end.

That Wilson and his wife are behind all of this, possibly along with associates of hers at the CIA, does make the most sense...

Think how easily this would be to work, too...

Wilson hints, I know something about WMD, even though I have no training, because, and now please don't report this Mr Novak, my wife is a CIA WMD analyst.

So Novak calls the CIA. They send him to someone who handles the press from the WMD analyst department, who is in on the scam with Plame and Wilson.

He confirms what Wilson had said, and hints that Plame had, perhaps unethically, suggested Wilson go in the first place. The conspirator *suggests* that Novak not run with Plame's name. Since, Novak is used to getting a yes or no he takes this as a yes, you can use it.

So, following standard journalist protocal, Novak goes looking for a second source. He calls up someone else he knows and says I've been told the Valerie Plame, wife of Wilson, might of had a hand in unethically sending her husband on a mission to damage the President - is she or is she not in the position to do so? Mr Second Source, not in on the plan, says, unofficially, yep, she was in a position to unethically influence sending her husband on this mission.

Novak now has been baited with some good stuff, that he has to name Palme to go public with. So Novak - now quoting two "senior administration officials" runs with it.

The trap is complete...

We know that Wilson is perfectally willing to lie and distort the truth to go after the President - he's admitted to doing so when he claimed Rove was the source.

So all he would need is a little help from his wife, and one other person in the CIA.

Certainly more likely then the byzantine, and just plain stpuid, revenge scheme the press seems to be running with...

I think that you are probably correct in this assessment of yours:

"Between the Beeb post excavated by mewzilla, Shermy's flash of insight and Dog's discovery of the six day interval between the Beeb's story and Novak's, I'm prepared to wager that the "former diplomat" and the "CIA source" are, in fact, a husband & wife tag team working the media circuit for the benefit of the DNC.

Indeed, I'll give odds...

Here's hoping their miserable careers should come to a sudden end."