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					Originally Posted by kellychaos
					
				 
				Why else would they have gone after his wife and not the man himself based on the merits of his investigation? 
			
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 By going after Plame, they in fact 
were going after Wilson, because Novak outed her in the process of explaining (according to him anyway) that his wife set up the trip, b/c she had CIA connections. 
It wasn't so much an attack on his wife, but it was a way to make him look less credible.