[Fedora]

A report in the MSM that references the meeting cited above, ostensibly of the Democrat Senate Policy Committee, where the decision was made to attack the President's credibility. It took place in early January, 2003 and the report I'm seeking specifically mentions that among the invited guests were Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV (ret), Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes and, I believe, a WaPo reporter (probably Walter Pincus).

Two notes that might help in searching for this:

1. I'm finding references to Wilson meeting Kristof at a meeting of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. From the big Vanity Fair article:

In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.

2. However, the meeting where the Democrats plotted how to undermine confidence in Bush may have been a meeting of the Democratic National Committee:

Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush

Capitol Hill Blue obtained a copy of the talking points when the Democratic National Committee sent them to a news outlet recently acquired by CHB’s parent company.

[okie01]

O.K. That's it. It's the Vanity Fair article. It was a meeting of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. And it did involve Kristof. But it was in May, 2003 -- not January, when the Dems decided to attack Bush's credibility.

Obviously, I conflated the two. However, this May meeting apparently afforded the Democrats an opportunity to further the program they agreed to undertake in January.

Consequently, we have a nexus for the plot. Wilson, Kristof, a bunch of Democrat pols (is Schumer on this committee, I wonder). And, within days, things begin to happen...

...Kristof "leaks" Wilson's report (anonymously)

...Somebody identified as "a CIA agent" leaks to the BBC.

...Pincus and the WaPo gets on the scent.

...Wilson gets an op-ed in the NYT.

...and they're off and running at Pimlico...