Nobody who's paid close attention to the unfolding story of the leaking to columnist



Robert Novak of the name of



Ambassador Wilson's



wife [Valerie Plame] as a CIA operative will be surprised by the two White House staffers— Lewis "Scooter" Libby and



Elliott Abrams—Wilson proposes as the most likely suspects in what he calls the "organized smear campaign" against him. He views the leak as retaliation for his presenting evidence that, contrary to President



Bush's 2003 State of the Union assertion,



Iraq was not trying to buy uranium from



Niger.

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