Finally, someone says it!

From Joe Conason's latest on the Wilson smears:

From the beginning of this controversy, the C.I.A. has stated categorically that Mrs. Wilson was not responsible for dispatching her husband to Niger, which isn't exactly one of the planet's garden spots. The agency has never revised that statement.

Odd, isn't it? The conservatives scream about why the CIA picked Wilson -- which isn't even relevant to question of whether Saddam tried to buy uranium -- yet they discount what the Agency itself has to say.