[tobyhill]

The thing The Rats forgot,
Wilson started running the muck before any of this created scandal got rolling.
Washington Post 7/16/2005

"Wilson set out to discredit the charge, working largely through back channels at first to debunk it. He called friends inside the government and the media, and told the New York Times's Nicholas D. Kristof of his findings in Niger. Kristof aired them publicly for the first time in his May 6, 2003, column but did not name Wilson. This caught the attention of officials inside Cheney's office, as well as others involved in war planning, according to people who had talked with them."

[syriacus]

Wilson started running the muck before any of this created scandal got rolling. Washington Post 7/16/2005

Great point!!

Poor op-ed-libeller Joey Wilson suddenly found that he had to shovel a heavy load, didn't he?

Not quite the easy life of retirement he was anticipating.