Mark Kleiman has discovered another possible rationale for the White House's outing of Valerie Plame, this one offered by former Reagan NSC staffer Vincent Cannistraro: It "was part of a campaign aimed at discrediting US intelligence agencies for not supporting White House claims that Saddam Hussein was reconstituting Iraq's nuclear weapons programme."
More bloggy detail and analysis here.
Posted by Jack O'Toole on October 27, 2003 06:14 AM