More evidence that Plame disclosed classified information to reporters through her her husband

The Strata-Sphere:

Looks like the kooks have flown the nest again. Today the tin-hatters are going back to the debunked Niger forgery conspiracy theory. This from Counterbalance (do I need to point out that the need for a counterbalance means there is a severe imbalance present?)...

We all know that the forgeries were held in a safe in the CIA by Valerie’s own little group, hidden from the rest of the intelligence community until right before the SOTU. I am sure Fitz is grasping for a timeline: of who had the documents and why they sat on them for three months. Of course, he could also be wondering how the Niger forgeries were part and parcel of the Pincus and Kristof articles of Wilson’s Niger trip - when the documents were not in US hands until 6 months after his trip!

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Hmmm. A State Department official leads Wilson to reporters? Most likely. In fact I would bet you that State Department official has ties to Pincus and Kristof and possibly Kerry.

By May 2003, Wilson had made enough noise in Washington, DC, political circles about the veracity of pre-war Iraq intelligence to attract the attention of Libby and Hadley. Wilson had been a source for Nicholas Kristoff’s New York Times column that suggested the administration knowingly used the phony Niger documents to win support for the war.

Yes, and it is why we know for sure Valerie and Joe peddled the story because only they would be so dumb as to link the Niger forgeries to a trip which happened well before the forgeries surfaced. And only an imbalanced site like this would be so stupid as to repeat the same mistake.

I have long contended that Wilson's leak of classified information had to come from his best source in the CIA, his wife. While he was not precluded from talking about his trip, because the CIA failed to require confidentiality, how did he know about the bogus documents that were collected after his trip and unrealated to it? The left's contention that the bogus documents were the basis for the President's famous 16 words in his Sate of the Union address are refuted by the words he uttered beginning with the phrase "According to British Integgigence..." The bogus documents actually came from Italian and French intelligence, and were not the basis for the statement.

The media has been remarkably uncurious about this "inconsistency" in Wilson's narrative. It would not surprise me to see Kristof and Pincus who republished Wilson's fantasy about the bogus documents get to explain this in more detail when called as witnesses for Libby. This probably explain's Fitzgerald's interest in this aspect of the story.