[cyncooper]

If her activities were undermining this administration, I have to question that any alleged "cover" was being blown. I have been convinced for quite awhile that the Wilsons and their allies (not their enemies, as they are now claiming) informed journalists of her affiliation in order to account for and justify why Wilson of all people went to Niger, ostensibly at the behest of the administration (which was also false).

I think she or her former boss, Alan Foley, was the anonymous "CIA official" who was leaking about the Wilson trip and presenting a distorted and untruthful picture of it.

In my mind a CIA official that would lie about such a thing was not engaged in any work that would aid our country.

White House 'warned over Iraq claim'

Excerpts:

Doubts about a claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were aired 10 months before Mr Bush included the allegation in his key State of the Union address this year, a CIA official has told the BBC.

~snip~

Now the CIA official has told the BBC that Mr Wilson's findings had been passed onto the White House as early as March 2002.

~end excerpts~

Now, as my link at #33 demonstrates, first, it is a flat out lie that Wilson had "findings", and second, it is a lie that these non-existant "findings" were "passed onto the White House".

I have to ask myself why a "CIA official" would speak with a foreign propaganda organ like the BBC to lie about the Bush administration.

Further, since the WH did not know about Wilson's trip, they can hardly have leaked who sent him on it.