Obviously, I conflated the two. However, this May meeting apparently afforded the Democrats an opportunity to further the program they agreed to undertake in January.
Consequently, we have a nexus for the plot. Wilson, Kristof, a bunch of Democrat pols (is Schumer on this committee, I wonder). And, within days, things begin to happen...
...Kristof "leaks" Wilson's report (anonymously)
...Somebody identified as "a CIA agent" leaks to the BBC.
...Pincus and the WaPo gets on the scent.
...Wilson gets an op-ed in the NYT.
...and they're off and running at Pimlico...
Yes; and I think that this nexus was coordinating with a group of Clintonistas from CIA and State who had worked on Clinton's Iraq policy; and that this domestic nexus linked to foreign counterparts in Britain and France and elsewhere. The forged Niger documents initially came to British and US intelligence through Italy.