[eureka!]

Oh, Africa is a big country. Methinks Wilson had other reasons for visiting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671900/posts

[rmgatto]

Oh, Africa is a big country. Methinks Wilson had other reasons for visiting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671900/posts

Yes, but I believe that one of his main missions was to discredit the administration with lies and misdirection, leading to accusations of criminal persecution. It remains to be seen whether Joe and Valerie will be hung upside down in the public square like Mussolini and his mistress (minus the predicate executions, of course). However, we can hope that the tide is turning against these sorry people.

[griswold3]

I was just thinking the same thing!! Very intriguing!!

[MiniCooperChick]

Africa's not a country. It's a continent.

[AmeriBrit]

President Bush, VP Cheney and Karl Rove do a lot of work we're not aware of silently in the background and maybe Wilson's 2nd trip was a ploy by them to see who the leaker's and traitors were in the CIA. Mr. 'Ego Wilson' probably jumped at the chance of going so he could tell everyone personally involved in their crooked Niger deals to keep their mouths shut about what happened during the 1999 trip instead of leaving a paper trail such as memo's that could be traced.

Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission

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The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, "there's this crazy report" about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq. The committee found WILSON HAD MADE AN EARLIER TRIP TO NIGER IN 1999 FOR THE CIA, ALSO AT THE SUGGESTION OF HIS WIFE".
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html