[cmccuist]

This whole sad tale hinges on whether Valerie Plame was a secret agent or not and whether she recommended that Joe Wilson be sent to Niger to investigate Saddam and the yellowcake.

According to the commision, she DID recommend that Joe Wilson go to Niger. He did a poor job of looking for the link. I suspect he wasn't looking too hard.

I also suspect he was hoping that Kerry would give him a nice assignment for his non-verification of the Saddam/uranium link.

Also, why isn't anybody being prosecuting for blowing Valerie Plame's cover? I suspect she was just an employee working at Langley and wasn't undercover at all.

Basically Joe Wilson was a paper pusher who's wife got him a once in a lifetime assignment. He overplayed his hand trying to drop W in the grease and now his 15 minutes are up. Kerry wont have anything to do with him. Everyone's trying to distance themselves from this guy.

What he should have done was his real job. If he did find the verification, W would have praised him just like Bush 41 did and he could have had a plum assignment. Or if he could have proven that there was no link, Kerry would have fixed him up. Now he's got nothing.

Craig