On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s now historic op-ed, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. As a covert operative at the time of the story, the revelation of Plame’s agency ties involved Novak and his “two senior administration official” sources in a lengthy criminal investigation. That investigation led to …
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