Reading Best of the Web Today, I came across this New York Sun review of Valerie Plame's new book. Here's the best quote:
Mr. Wilson comes out badly according to his wife's account: invariably abusing her, storming off, or on the verge of tears, and when the White House concedes that the yellowcake mention was wrong, he does not accept victory graciously but needs to hurl himself angrily onto the national stage to draw the apology to everyone's notice. While Ms. Plame is left home in Washington looking after 7-year-old twins, anxious and exposed, her job in jeopardy, he is gallivanting around America talking to conspiracy theorists and peaceniks in community colleges.
Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV is a larger-than-life figure, a man seemingly drawn from an opera bouffe, not the U.S. diplomatic corps. Of course, these days more and more Washington figures seem drawn from satire, not reality.