Who outed Valerie Plame?
Joe Wilson points a finger at Lewis Libby – Former Envoy Talks in Book About Source of C.I.A. Leak by David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson Link to Article Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV says in a new book that he believes the White House official behind the disclosure of his wife’s identity as an undercover C.I.A. officer was “quite possibly” I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. But Mr. Wilson offers no firm evidence to support his assertion, and the White House has denied it. Mr. Wilson writes that Mr. Libby “evidently seized opportunities to rail openly against me” and was an “ardent neoconservative” who had the “motive and means” to conduct a covert inquiry to identify Mr. Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame. Her name was disclosed by Robert D. Novak in his syndicated column in July 2003 after Mr. Wilson publicly criticized the Bush administration’s handling of reports that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger, in Africa. Federal prosecutors are invest
