The Great Plame Out

Back in July, I had given odds on who would be responsible for outing Valerie Plame. Well, it looks like I was right. It was Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame themselves who did the outing.

In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.

Merry Fitzmas folks. Ace has more.

Now, there are those who might think that the 'wife' in question is Kristof's wife, but Kristof's wife is also a New York Times reporter, Sheryl WuDunn, and that fact would have needed to be reported as such. As such, in this context, it looks like the wife at that meeting was Valerie Plame herself.

UPDATE:
Ace has retracted his earlier story, thinking that Generation Why doesn't have his ducks in a row. I'm not quite sure why more people didn't pick this up sooner. Is this a smoking gun to end the whole Plame kerfuffle or just additional speculation. I think there's something to this, but we're still getting ahead of the facts.