Apparently, according to Walter Pincus, Fitzgerald is trying to figure out the story behind who sent Wilson to Niger:
The origin of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's trip to Niger in 2002 to check out intelligence reports that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium has become a contentious side issue to the inquiry by special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is looking into whether a crime was committed with the exposure of Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife, as a covert CIA employee.The battle is between the CIA's version of events and the Bush Administration's version of events. The CIA maintains "that Wilson was chosen for the trip by senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division (CPD) -- not by his wife..." Yet, Rove and company dreamed up their own version:
Senior Bush administration officials told a different story about the trip's origin in the days between July 8 and July 12, 2003. They said that Wilson's wife was working at the CIA dealing with weapons of mass destruction and that she suggested him for the Niger trip, according to three reporters.Oh, the Bush team is backed up by their State Department and some Republican Senators.
Interesting. Are we looking at a conspiracy here?
