Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn

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Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/28leak.html?ei=5088&en=0eca1936f541e166&ex=1280203200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122520575-UiA6bBeNkAeTLIw1j2twDA&pagewanted=print


The first two episodes, involving the columnist Robert D. Novak and the reporter Matthew Cooper, have become the subjects of intense scrutiny in recent weeks. But little attention has been paid to what The Post reporter, Walter Pincus, has recently described as a separate exchange on July 12, 2003.

In that exchange, Mr. Pincus says, "an administration official, who was talking to me confidentially about a matter involving alleged Iraqi nuclear activities, veered off the precise matter we were discussing and told me that the White House had not paid attention" to the trip to Niger by Joseph C. Wilson IV "because it was a boondoggle arranged by his wife, an analyst with the agency who was working on weapons of mass destruction."