Head of CIA Weapons Analysis Program Leaving - A top CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, who became embroiled in controversy over whether the White House stretched evidence about Iraq's programs, said he planned to leave the agency in October. - Alan Foley, who heads the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center, told colleagues in a note dated Aug. 29 that he had been "thinking about life after the agency for some time" and decided to leave after 26 years to enter the private sector. - He alluded to this summer's finger-pointing between the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House over who was responsible for an unsubstantiated claim in President Bush's State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.
Oddly, I don't recall ever seeing a news story that linked Foley to Plame, in any way. Not so much as a cross-reference in a story about Foley's resignation -- "the man who was Plame's superior..." -- nor in any account covering Plame/Wilson (as in "subsequently, Ms. Plame's superior, Alan Foley, resigned as head of...")
This connection was totally missed by the mainstream media. Even Walter Pincus never made the connection...
Pincus would have no reason to because he was Wilson's chief media member of the setup to create a Bush administration scandal.
BTW, thanks to Sean Hannity's acquisition of that memo from Sen. Rockefeller's office, we now have proof positive that the Left/Dems were plotting to do exactly that — manufacture a scandal with which to tar President Bush.
I'm deeply concerned that Ashcroft's recusal is a signal that the wrong person or people are going to go down for this phony scandal, and that once again the Leftist cabal that set it all up will get away completely free.