[Eva]

Joe Wilson has stated that Chris Lehane brought him on board the Kerry campaign in May, before which time Wilson had never uttered one word about the sixteen words in the Bush speech. It was after that meeting that Lehane shopped the story to the NYT and arranged the Vanity Faire article. The fact that Novack wrote an article about Wilson just played right into their hands. The story was dead before Lehane revived it on the basis of the Novack article. The rest is history.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.