[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html\n|Or maybe he just chose to believe a lie]
Excerpt:
Wilson's assertions -- both about what he found in Niger and what the Bush administration did with the information -- were undermined yesterday in a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report.
The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.
Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said.
The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him.
I say:
All you who berate me for not responding to X, where X is your pet manufactured scandal of the day, be careful what you wish for. I'll respond to X, for any given value of X, at a time of my choosing. My policy now is to wait till the firm evidence is in, however long it takes, then beat all the braying jackasses over the head with it. There is no statute of limitations on falsehood.
And I'll do it every time. Without mercy. The same treatment I'm giving this yellowcake bullshit is what I'll give every other piece of bullshit that's been flung: wait till it's properly ripened, then throw it back. Your only escape is to retract every dubious assertion you've ever made, before it gets exposed as a lie, not after. Better get cracking.