Surely you are smarter than that.

Valerie Wilson's friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life.

Ah yes. Yes indeed. I am sure that our enemies were going around asking her neighbors if she was a secret agent...

That's a howler.

I also don't believe it.

2. Part of being a covert agent is for the person to NOT serve inside the US for five years.

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The CIA has offered no proof that she has met the above beyond a claim. As I noted in another comment, shall we next discuss rendition?

Fitzgerald: As to the critical question of whether Ms. Plame had any cover to blow, Mr. Fitzgerald was equally insouciant: "I am not speaking to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert."

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While that was not part of his case re Libby, it stretches the imagination that he would have left it out.

3. I speak the same way I suspect that you do, although it has been my experience that those who make such statements as yours tend to be 100% themselves.

In your case I shall apologize to all arses for bringing you in for comparison.

4. I repeat for your education. A covert agent would not be working in Langley. She was an ex-covert agent.

5. Evidently you read neither Joe Wilson's NYT article, Bush's 03 SOTU or the Senate Intelligence Committee's report.

I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's.

He concluded:

It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.

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And so it stood until Bush's 03 SOTU when Bush said:

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide

Note that Bush was saying what we had learned from the Brits, and that he did not say Iraq had purchased yellowcake. He said they had attempted.

Now, why did that trigger this from Wilson?

The next day, I reminded a friend at the State Department of my trip and suggested that if the president had been referring to Niger, then his conclusion was not borne out by the facts as I understood them.

Why did he find error? After all, this is what he told the CIA.

The intelligence report indicated that former Nigerien Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki was unaware of any contracts that had been signed between Niger and any rogue states for the sale of yellowcake...Mayaki meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq. The intelligence report said that Mayaki interpreted "expanding commercial relations" to mean that the delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales.
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CIA's DO gave the former ambassador's information a grade of "good," which means that it added to the IC's body of understanding on the issue..The reports officer said that a "good" grade was merited because the information responded to at least some of the outstanding questions in the Intelligence Community, but did not provide substantial new information. He said he judged that the most important fact in the report was that the Nigerien officials admitted that the Iraqi delegation had traveled there in 1999, and that the Nigerien Prime Minister believed the Iraqis were interested in purchasing uranium, because this provided some confirmation of foreign government service reporting.

What was his beef? Bush didn't dispute his claim that no sale had been made.

So so much for your statement that he knew the government was lying..... In fact, we know that what he told the CIA was agreed to by the CIA.

No, his angst towards the government in June '03 was based on his anti war stance, not anything he learned in Niger. His whole article emits a huge cloud of smoke that, when is blown away, says, "Joe Wilson has nothing knew to say."  

And in fact, some of what he said was in error.

The former ambassador also told Committee staff that he was the source of a Washington Post article ("CIA Did Not Share Doubt on Iraq Data; Bush Used Report of Uranium Bid," June 12, 2003) which said, "among the Envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because `the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong" when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports. The former ambassador said that he may have "misspoken" to the reporter when he said he concluded the documents were "forged." He also said he may have become confused about his own recollection after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported in March 2003 that the names and dates on the documents were not correct and may have thought he had seen the names himself. The former ambassador reiterated that he had been able to collect the names of the government officials which should have been on the documents.

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I trust this will expand your horizons.