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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: John Carragher who wrote (466364)9/29/2003 10:43:57 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
The CIA's request late Friday that the Justice Department investigate whether the White House leaked Mrs. Wilson's name to columnist Robert Novak has set off media smoke alarms.

But what hasn't gotten much attention is Novak's original report, which made it clear that the White House wasn't the only one who spilled the beans about Wilson's wife.

Here's what Novak wrote on July 14:

"Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him."

So it wasn't just the White House who blew Mrs. Wilson's cover. In fact, the cavalier manner which the CIA seems to have confirmed her role in the imbroglio suggests there was nothing particularly secret about her identity in the first place.

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