Anybody else here wonder WTH kind of "business" Joe Wilson had in Niger, which is what ostensibly qualifed him to make the first trip to Niger in 1999? This is not Egypt or South Africa we are taking about. This is one of the most dangerous and corrupt regimes in Africa. There are State Department warnings against Americans traveling there. It's one of those banana republics where nobody "does business" without the government being involved. So what was Joe Wilson doing there? Why should we believe him when he reports something that conveniently lets the Niger government off the hook for dealing with Saddam Hussein? Isn't is just the tiniest bit possible that Wilson set all this up, using his wife's position of course, to protect his friends in Niger in order to support his "business" while at the same time screwing the Bush Administration? What a sweet deal! Too bad George Tenet and Bob Novak called bullshit on the whole thing.
It sure sounds possible, though I have no idea. But what I find funny is how no one can answer, off the cuff, what country he was an ambassador to, even though they call him "Ambassador Wilson" to give him street cred.
The facts out there indicate that Rove was ASKED about Plame and gave an off-the-record comment that was THE TRUTH. Now the MSM are attacking THE TRUTH--which is that two Gore supporters connived to send one of them--who's said his goal is to ruin this administration--to Niger, where he sat around and chatted with a few people and didn't even write a report on a potential source of nuclear fuel!
Wilson then said Bush lied with those 16 words; in fact, he did not--British intel DID find that Iraq had attempted to get yellowcake from Niger.
Two political enemies of the President run an operation in the CIA to hurt the president...and the "scandal" is that someone blew the cover off it!