The day I first heard "his wife sent him"...
So today the Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson. The first time I heard that there was a former Ambassador who debunked the Niger/Iraq uranium claim a year before President Bush's infamous 16 words in the 2003 State of the Union Address was July 4, 2003. A high ranking administration official (don't know if it was one of Novak's sources or not) was quick to point out that "his (the Ambassador's) wife sent him, she's a desk jockey our at Langley"... these words effortlessly rolled off his tongue as a nepotism defense and divergence from the real issue... Iraq didn't seek uranium from Niger and we knew this a year before the President made the news breaking claim in the most important speech of the year. Secretary Powell repeated this claim, along with "Curve Ball", in front of the U.N. as the two definitive pieces of evidence linking Saddam to having nuclear and biological WMD.
I don't know about you but this smells like the Neocons taking charge and getting those words into that speech to sell this debacle of a war that we find ourselves in.
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