The Whole Thing in Boldface
In the January 2004 issue of Vanity Fair:
In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.
That’s because Wilson was putting a down payment on a piece of real estate in the same neighborhood of the paper where Kristof himself opines.
And it was one mullet of a deal: business up front and a party in the back.
Were Plame’s disclosures to Kristof on that morning in May 2003 authorized by her employer? If it was left to George Tenet —who’s a miserable bastard— then, yeah, probably.
