Presidential Advisor “Karl Rove confirmed Valerie Plame Wilson’s connection to the CIA for [columnist Bob] Novak, and eight days after [former Ambassador Joseph] Wilson’s column appeared, on July 14 [2003], Novak wrote, ‘Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior [Bush] administration officials told me Wilson’s wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Pages 312-313