Why would having Mrs. Joe Wilson mention his name as a qualified

[LittleApple81]

person to investigate the Niger claim invalidate his case against Bush? First, she did not have the authority to send him, somebody else did. Second, that her COVER was BLOWN is still TREASON.

[ClassWarrior]

1. She wasn't "outed" - her cover was blown.

"Outed" makes it sound like she's gay. Her exposure was a lot more nefarious than that.

[LittleApple81]

3. Thanks. Changed it. n/t

[annxburns]

2. It's all smoke and mirrors ...

... thrown up by the right. Wait til the indictments come down and then we will see. Seems impossible to me that they have launched this investigation and interviewed the President for 70 minutes if there is no story.

What I fear however, is that Bush could say just jettison Cheney or his chief of staff Libby if they are involved. Then our whoreish media would fall all over themselves saying, "Bush took decisive action and fired Cheney when it looked like he was guilty of wrongdoing ...". Then he could put someone like Powell on the ticket and go on to win the election ...

Of course, the best case scenario for democrats is that Bush is somehow implicated. I wonder what questions were asked during that 70 minutes?

[Spazito]

4. The story re Mrs. Wilson's supposed mention of her husband's...

name is a big red herring that tells me that some bad news for the bush admin on the betrayal of a CIA deep cover agent is coming soon. They are trying to validate something that has no relationship to the actual issue, as usual.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

5. Here are some questions for you...

What if Wilson WASN'T the one who investigated the Niger claim?

What if Wilson's "investigation" was merely a cover story for a more covert investigation?

Where WAS Valerie Plame when Wilson was in Niger?

[Spazito]

6. Why would Wilson write an op/ed on the lies of the bush admin...

regarding his report on the Niger/yellow cake question if he wasn't the one who investigated it and was, instead, involved in a covert operation? I haven't read his book to see how he phrases his involvement in this, does he re-iterate his involvement in the investigation?

[Devils Advocate NZ]

7. Why not? A cover story is a cover story...

What Wilson learned about Uranium in Niger doesn't change whether he personally gathered the info, or his wife gathered it undercover.

That would explain why Plame suggested her husband carry out an "investigation" - she was suggesting a cover story, as she specialised in WMD intel, and she could "tag along" to carry out covert meetings with her contacts.

Wilson learns it's all a lie, the wife concurs with the writing of an article under his byline, and possibly even the CIA. The end result is the lie gets exposed WITHOUT exposing the source - until the Bush cabal finds out that Plame suggested Wilson carry out the investigation.

Perhaps the Bush cabal did not know she was undercover, but by saying she was CIA they had exposed enough for people to put two and two together.

Equally plausible is that they knew she was undercover, but they also knew that the CIA had sanctioned the release, so this was aimed at the CIA rather than at Wilson or Plame personally.

Either way, it seems unlikely to me that the husband of an undercover WMD agent would be chosen to carry out the investigation and the CIA WOULDN'T use that to gather some covert intel, by sending the wife along with him.