A month before Robert Novak wrote his column supposedly outing Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson gave a speech in which he talks in the third person about a person who is obviously himself, allows Valerie Plame to be identified as his wife, and discloses his intense opposition to the war in Iraq, as well as his anti—Israel sentiments.  He makes clear that he is the source of the Kristoff/Pincus leaks about his mission.  He even  says that 'this thing has legs,' that it will take two or three months, but it has legs — implying, perhaps, that he had already been working with the Kerry campaign to make this issue big — attacking the President's credibility on the war. Clifford May noted this Wilson speech in July 2003, but only to show that Wilson wasn't credible because of the kind of groups to which he was speaking and how easy it was to find out from non—Administration people who his wife was and where she worked because he, in fact, had done...(Read Full Post)