[okie01]

Two senior Administration officials tell TIME that in a January conversation with a key National Security Council (nsc) official just a few days before the speech, a top cia analyst named Alan Foley objected to including the allegation in the speech.

Cooper's work? And Foley was, of course, Valerie Plame's boss in the counter-proliferation section. The one who quietly resigned a month after the Novak story broke...

[cyncooper]

And Foley was, of course, Valerie Plame's boss in the counter-proliferation section. The one who quietly resigned a month after the Novak story broke...

Yup. I was going to note the same, glad you did.

[Shermy]

"two senior Administration officials"

Sounds similar to Novak's sources, no? Could it be those reports about Rove blabbing to "six reporters" be misplaced by those who didn't get calls? That it wasn't Bushies doing this?

And perhaps when they called Novak...

Then there's the whole issue of Wilson's leaks prior to his NYTimes article - to mostly the Brit press, part of wanting to take down Blair?