Kit Bond: Wilson to blame for Plame outing

Think of it as the "Internet Invention Strategem." Just keep repeating the lie until it's picked up by the right-wing pundits and bloggers, then moves right in to the mainstream press.

Bond isn't claiming that Wilson leaked Plame's name to Robert Novak, but he's insisting that Wilson is every bit as responsible for Plame's outing as the leaker was. At a press availability in which he blasted Democrats for closing the Senate to push for the completion of an investigation into the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence, Bond said of Wilson: "When he says that the vice president sent him [to Niger], the obvious question is, 'If the vice president didn't send him, who did?'" Bond continued: "Joe Wilson has himself to blame for whatever revelation" would come about his wife.

There's just one problem with Bond's theory: Wilson never said that the vice president sent him to Niger.

Ahh, those Missouri officials just keep doing me proud.