From over at The Blogging of the President, I found the following:
It is my belief that Plame was first made as "chickenfeed" - trading of off the record information between reporters and sources - and not for the purpose of vengence, but before, when the White House was trying to establish a "Niger connection" for the "yellowcake" story. It is likely that the WH planned a sting operation - Niger offers Saddam some illegal Uranium, and that would be used to prove that Saddam had nuclear weapons ambitions. In this line of reasoning, the scam would need a credible channel - the front company which Plame worked for would be that credible channel. When the scam fell through, Plame's name was floating around, and there was a story for the first person who was willing to go public with it.
Could what we're talking about be a White House attempt to manipulate the WMD intelligence. Is that why so many judges agree this is such a major crime and have no problem jailing reporters for refusing to testify?
I don't have any idea, but I often tell people that conspiracy theories aren't real, because people like to tell their secrets. We didn't fake the Apollo moon landing, because someone would have admitted it by now, just as a for instance.
But, would a conspiracy theory become more plausible if the conspirators weren't able to keep control of who's talking to whom?
Alas, I'm not sure I buy it, but I will continue to watch and see how this all breaks down.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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