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To: carranza2 who wrote (10320)	10/2/2003 1:09:26 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793706

In a post to you, CB asked about who sent Wilson to Niger in the first place. The answer, according to the article Wilson published that allegedly caused the Administration to leak his wife's name, is--you ready for this--the CIA. That's been known from the outset, c2. As for the rest of it about her CIA spot known around Washington, therefore it was ok to leak, Novak has said conflicting things. At first he said "they" gave it to him as in "they" made a point of doing so. Now he is saying it was part of a conversation about Wilson and was a fairly innocent moment in the conversation. I tend to believe what he said before he came under attack. But, in both accounts, he is saying he was told, in that conversation, that she was a CIA employee in a context which was meant to imply nepotism. So, he gets her CIA employment from the "senior administration official" he was chatting with. In all accounts, he then confirms that with someone at the CIA designated to talk with him. Who asked him not to publish her name. Now he is saying "everyone knew." I frankly don't think the intelligence community would be going ballistic if that were the case.