July 21, 2005

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the memo made it clear that information about Wilson's wife was sensitive and should not be shared. Today's headline Washington Post article provides greater detail on the memo (from the same source? Powell?).
And the source really knows this memo (still has a copy, by the sounds of it).
Plame -- who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo -- is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document...
This little bit of news seems to sum up the whole sorry business:
Almost all of the memo is devoted to describing why State Department intelligence experts did not believe claims that Saddam Hussein had in the recent past sought to purchase uranium from Niger. Only two sentences in the seven-sentence paragraph mention Wilson's wife.
Three pages of info. They ignore 99% of it and cherry-pcik exactly the intelligence they want... just so they can mis-use it!

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