Via Instapundit, we …

Via Instapundit, we have a “Hoooold Everything!” moment:

It was Saddam Hussein’s information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as “Baghdad Bob,” who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade — an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.

That’s according to a new book Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been trying to buy enriched “yellowcake” uranium. Wilson wrote that he did not learn the identity of the Iraqi official until this January, when he talked again with his Niger source.

So Bush didn’t lie about the whole “yellowcake” thing. Well, I’m glad Wilson set that record straight. I imagine he’ll want to apologize now.

That knowledge has not altered Wilson’s much-expressed view that the Bush administration distorted intelligence on Iraq’s weapons capabilities to help make the case for going to war. Wilson maintains that someone in the administration retaliated against him by disclosing to columnist Robert D. Novak that his wife was a CIA operative, a leak now the subject of a grand jury investigation. The revelation about Sahhaf, contained in “The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity,” adds an odd bit of detail to the uranium saga.

Or not. Wilson still thinks Bush lied, just not about his “intelligence”. Given all the inflammatory stuff he’s accused Bush, Rove, et. al. of, based on his own faulty and incomplete intelligence, I daresay the odds that his wife truly was a covert or undercover operative in the CIA when Bob Novak talked about her (as opposed to just an analyst) are getting pretty bad.

So let’s recap, shall we? Wilson got bad intelligence, and he acted on it. Therefore, WILSON LIED!!! (I’m sure Halliburton is involved in this somewhere.)

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