Reply #159: If they thought she worked for WINPAC it would be a way to smear

[Garbo 2004]

them and Wilson at the same time, discredit them, get back at them for the pain in the arse they were and warn those who continued to criticize the administration as anonymous sources for the media that they could be next. Cheney and Co were at war with the WINPAC folks. Which is why they were bypassed and whenever shit hit the fan were the ones to take the rap for it. As in the Niger matter (and the rest of the WMD claims) who was blamed for the "flawed intel?" The CIA and specifically WINPAC. WINPAC: http://www.cia.gov/cia/di/organizationt_winpac_page.html

Problem was, Valerie Wilson apparently wasn't a mere analyst in WINPAC under the Deputy Director for Intelligence: http://www.cia.gov/cia/di/opportunities_section.html

She was under the Directorate of Operations. The "spook" side of the CIA.