Because he asked for this assignment in Niger to purposely torpedo the acquisition of accurate intelligence on Iraq so as to undermine the Bush administration po-litically, and he did use his wife and her contacts at the CIA to get that assignment. When he went to Niger, he spent time "drinking sweet mint tea," supposedly reading documents. He pushed the issue of the "outing" of his wife. This whole business with the Novak leak.
He pushed that issue to divert attention from her role in getting...

Because he asked for this assignment in Niger to purposely torpedo the acquisition of accurate intelligence on Iraq so as to undermine the Bush administration po-litically, and he did use his wife and her contacts at the CIA to get that assignment. When he went to Niger, he spent time "drinking sweet mint tea," supposedly reading documents. He pushed the issue of the "outing" of his wife. This whole business with the Novak leak.
He pushed that issue to divert attention from her role in getting...

MR. BUCKLEY: Well, there was an accumulation of material and two-or- three months -- no, I guess four-or-five months ago -- the Atlantic Monthly asked me to submit a piece on why I decided to finally to sell my sailboat, and that required me to think through why at certain points in one's life one makes certain divestitures. So I wrote a substantial essay, and in the course of it, fleshed out what I had been up to and doing for the last 50 years (dignified chuckle) and came up with this autobiography...

Because he asked for this assignment in Niger to purposely torpedo the acquisition of accurate intelligence on Iraq so as to undermine the Bush administration po-litically, and he did use his wife and her contacts at the CIA to get that assignment. When he went to Niger, he spent time "drinking sweet mint tea," supposedly reading documents. He pushed the issue of the "outing" of his wife. This whole business with the Novak leak.
He pushed that issue to divert attention from her role in getting...

MR. BUCKLEY: Well, there was an accumulation of material and two-or- three months -- no, I guess four-or-five months ago -- the Atlantic Monthly asked me to submit a piece on why I decided to finally to sell my sailboat, and that required me to think through why at certain points in one's life one makes certain divestitures. So I wrote a substantial essay, and in the course of it, fleshed out what I had been up to and doing for the last 50 years (dignified chuckle) and came up with this autobiography,...