That is the conclusion of the Washington Post editorial today. In a very fair piece that points out the blame on all sides Wilson takes the lionshare.

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame’s CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming — falsely, as it turned out — that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush’s closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It’s unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.

It is also unfortunate that so many on the left and the in the MSM ignored so many of us in the center and on the right who have been saying the same thing for over 2 years.

[tags] Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Bush Lied, Plamegate [/tags]