Reader S writes with an interesting connection that hadn't occurred to me:

...Also, there was a story in the WaPo this week about [the recently fired former CIA Inspector General officer Mary] McCarthy:

A onetime Africa specialist who served in the early 1990s as the NIC's senior officer responsible for warning of imminent security threats to the country, McCarthy went on to help oversee U.S. intelligence programs on the National Security Council from 1996 to 2001. In that role, she had access to details of every covert intelligence action authorized by the president.

Joe Wilson was on the NSC in 1997-98, so he and McCarthy would have to know each other, right? They were both working on Africa issues in the same agency. This is a bit far fetched, but what if she was a professional ally of Wilson and Plame? Would the Bush WH be so petty as to go after someone who may have been on their side, even if not actually involved in the situation (as far as I know)?...

Posted by Laura at April 29, 2006 05:30 PM