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Ambassador Wilson has become increasingly critical of the administration in recent months, after challenging the assertion that Iraq tried to buy uranium in Africa. Last week, Mr. Wilson appeared at a news conference along with representatives from anti-war groups calling for the dismissal of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"But 9-11 did not give the president and his administration a license to go to war with any nation at any time, based upon some notion that, perhaps, they might someday in the future, if not otherwise dealt with, pose a threat to the region or to us," he said.

Ambassador Wilson retired from the U.S. foreign service in 1998. He was the top U.S. diplomat in Baghdad during the run-up to the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=41DFF7B6-86DD-47EB-838822682C9A87C2
And then if you look at other articles linked to that page, you will see that VOA changes it's story.

In his column, Novak attributed the information about Plame's involvement in Wilson's trip to Africa to two unnamed senior administration officials. But he did not attribute her name to them.
" asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else," he said.
Novak said a confidential source at the CIA told him Plame was "an analyst, not a spy, not covert operative and not in charge of undercover operatives."
Other CIA sources told CNN on Monday that Plame was an operative who ran agents in the field.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/29/novak.cia/

Novak wrote:
Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency OPERATIVE on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20030714.shtml

And whatever Newsmax says today, we will be seeing repeated elsewhere later.