Bush Aides Say They’ll Cooperate With Probe Into Intelligence Leak (washingtonpost.com)
“Wilson said that in the week after the Novak column appeared, several journalists told him that the White House was trying to call attention to his wife, apparently hoping to undermine his credibility by implying he had received the Niger assignment only because his wife had suggested the mission and recommended him for the job.
“Each of the reporters quoted the White House official as using some variation on, ‘The real story isn’t the 16 words. The real story is Wilson and his wife,’ ” Wilson said. “The time frame led me to deduce that the White House was continuing to try to push this story.”
Well – it couldn’t happen in Britain, could it? Could Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who debunked the stories about uranium from Niger, be Bush’s Dr.K?