“Somebody with a lot of money wants to get WMD, the REAL DEAL (nukes), knows that intelligence agencies like the CIA are tasked with trying to track their plans and stop them from achieving them, so they ID some CIA folks in the WMD section, buy them, and then those purchased folks use self-loving, fundamentally stupid and rudderless hollywood wannabees like Plame and Wilson to try and undermine the US effort.”

“The big story is an agency which is fighting tooth and nail to destroy this Administration and which has gone utterly beserk. The bigger story is why? I used to think the motive was just to cover their ass–Now I wonder if some are such Arabists they want to see the President fail.”

Well, there’s your John Le Carre novel right there. Read “The Night Manager.”

Roger, since Le Carre has turned into a loony version of his former self, you want to take up the mantle?