That's the theory printed by the Financial Times this morning:
A new wrinkle in the Plame affair?
An intriguing new theory has emerged in the case of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA operative. (...) Observer now hears a new angle on the story is circulating inside the Justice Department.
If this has been posted and discussed previously, I apologise, but did not see anything like it before (and I have tried to follow this pretty closely).
This comes from the gossip column of the FT, and not from their newspages, but it is usually well informed - and it is in the print edition of the paper.
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Update [2005-8-30 8:52:45 by Jerome a Paris]: I am sorry I could not follow the comments immediately. It seems I misread the story, as pointed out in the thread below, and made a lot more of it than there is. I don't want to delete the diary as there are a number of comments but will update the title. sorry about that. [/UPDATE]
An intriguing new theory has emerged in the case of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA operative.
(...)
Observer now hears a new angle on the story is circulating inside the Justice Department.
(...)
Many have assumed that Miller - who never actually wrote a story identifying Plame as an operative - is protecting Rove and/or other administration officials. But the missing link is that Miller is not a political reporter, but rather an investigative journalist who co-wrote a book on America's secret war against biological weapons and later published controversial articles on Iraq's effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Now here's the twist: Plame herself is a CIA operative who also specialised in weapons of mass destruction and bio-terrorism. So did Miller get to know Plame while she was writing her book or even use her as a source for other WMD stories? Despite 56 days' imprisonment and a vociferous campaign to release her - Miller is staying mum.
But at some point, surely, the truth will come out.
No particular comments from me on this, but it does sound interesting and worth sharing here...