Did Wilson Expose Plame?

Clifford May offers an interesting perspective that Joe Wilson himself "outed" his own wife as a secret agent.



"The first reference to Plame being a secret agent appears in The Nation, in an article by David Corn published July 16, 2003, just two days after Novak’s column appeared.....Since Novak did not report that Plame was "working covertly" how did Corn know that’s what she had been doing?.....it is Corn who is, apparently for the first time, "outing" Plame’s "undercover" status.....On what basis could Corn "assume" that Plame was not only working covertly but was actually a "top-secret" operative? And where did Corn get the idea that Plame had been "outed" in order to punish Wilson? That is not suggested by anything in the Novak column which, as I noted, is sympathetic to Wilson and Plame. The likely answer: The allegation that someone in the administration leaked to Novak as a way to punish Wilson was made by Wilson — to Corn. But Corn, rather than quote Wilson, puts the idea forward as his own." -- LynZee