Three Card Monte Kristof
On 6 May 2003, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof, in whch this piece of intelligence is shared:
I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.
Keep in mind that these words were printed in the most influential newspaper in the United States two months before Joe Wilson’s own, notorious op-ed piece was run in that same paper.
There’s no question that the “person” and the “someone” mentioned by Kristof were none other than Wilson and Plame —feeding Kristof and other reporters intelligence details in a bid for the A-list on the Leftist celebrity cocktail circuit. How did they divulge to Kristof the circumstances of their knowledge? How much leg did they have to show to land an op-ed piece in the Times? Why hasn’t Wilson been made to answer for his lies?
