Reply #32: Yes, he said it was a 'boondoggle'

[Catrina]

that she was a CIA agent. Since Wilson had not yet even written his article which he di in July, and they were already talking about him and Valerie Plame, in June, it seems they were very interested in Valerie before they had any reason to be mad at Joe.

They may not have been talking so much about Niger, as about her operation maybe tracking their 'ready-to-plant' WMDs. By then everyone knew the documents were forged.

And this is interesting, because I always thought Condoleeza Rice did not see the CIA memo, or know about Valerie Plame until she saw it on AF1:

Wurmser also passed on the same information about Wilson and his CIA to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, they added.

So, both Hadley and Condy knew Valerie Plame's id one month before the trip to Africa, and before Joe Wilson's article appeared. Why would they want to out her to the press BEFORE Joe Wilson's article?

Didn't they say all along she was outed because of his article? How was he a thorn in their sides before that?