Corn row: was it Joe Wilson who outed his wife?(POLITICS II)(David Corn)

HERE'S the real scandal: On the question of whether Saddam Hussein was seeking to obtain uranium in Africa--a vital national-security concern--the Central Intelligence Agency did not send its most seasoned spies and experienced detectives. Instead, the CIA--which had failed to penetrate Saddam's government, the Iranian mullahs' regime, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda--sent a retired diplomat with no investigative experience and whose inquiry, by his own admission, consisted of spending eight days at an African hotel "drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people." What is the likelihood that one of those people, upon being asked by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson ...