JOE WILSON OUTED HIS WIFE, Media Ignores

The Truth Detector ^ | October 26, 2005 | Rush Limbaugh

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Joe Wilson Outed His Wife, Media Ignores

October 26, 2005

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RUSH: So I'm minding my own business last night as I usually do,
bothering no one,
and all of a sudden
-- what time was this? I think it was before the World Series games.

By the way, do you know
that the Houston Astros don't have any black players? (interruption) They ought to be losing.
They don't have any black players on the team.
Well, I'm not saying this. Joe Morgan is saying this and some others (story). It's becoming a big issue here.
Well, it is. I saw a TV show about this two weeks ago. We'll get to that sometime today, but it had to be before the game started.
All of a sudden, the Internet starts blowing up.
The Internet starts blowing up.
The first story was that ABC had called the White House, and they said that they had two sources confirming that indictments were coming,
one to five indictments on the high end and, you know, Rove, Libby, could have been even higher --
and the White House said, "We don't know anything about it,"
and then it turns (out) ABC did not run with that story on their news last night.
The White House said, "This is a bluff." They called here bluffing us. They don't know anything,
and then there were more rumors last night,
and the rumors were identical.
One to five indictments in the CIA leak case,
one to five indictments,
and it could go really high in the White House --
and then nothing.
There was absolutely nothing to it. It was just more of the media out of control, and then today,
the special prosecutor's office.

I think the media got up today with the same theme going, said,

"This could be the day, why, the day we're all waiting for. This could be Christmas morning. Last night could have been our Christmas Eve,"
and then the special prosecutor's office.
Oh, and Fitzgerald's walking into the courthouse
and he's got an entourage of FBI and counterinsurgent guys around him protecting him, whoever they are,
and the media they got a throng of cameras fog him in there.
"This could be it! He's going in to tell the grand jury who he wants to send up. This could be it! We can't even keep our pants up we're so excited,"
and then the spokesman announced no indictments today, and you could just see the tears. You could see the tears forming. Some of the media looked like they're sucking on lemons, the way Katrina vanden Heuvel looked last night on Hardball.
Did you see that?
She looked like she was sucking lemons the whole time she was on the program. Had no way to connect the dots about Saddam Hussein but, boy, she can connect the dots to Dick Cheney.
At any rate, folks, after all of this hullabaloo last night --
and, by the way, ABC later denied that they had ever said to the White House they "double-sourced anything about indictments,"
so we have that disparity.
Why would the White House make this up? At any rate, so Fitzgerald announces no indictments today, and it just made me wonder: So what was all this last night?

Well, what all this was last night was just more of the same, what we've had for the previous two weeks or three weeks. All these rumors,

"Twenty-two indictments are coming next week! We know indictments are coming!"
Every day the story has been,
"Indictments could come tomorrow!
We're certainly hoping so!
We want to see Cheney in Club G'itmo orange!
We want to see Scooter Libby being perp-walked out of the White House,"
all this stuff, and they keep changing the theme.
They keep changing what the indictments are going to be about, and nobody knows.
Yet look at the reporting that we have got. Anyway, while all this was happening last night, and I'm paying attention to what the leaks say and what the media is reporting,
I decided it's time to do some research here.
So I started in with a long bit of research on just how this all got started
and who it was that really first notified anybody that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA --
and it turns out that Joe Wilson did, one month before Novak's column.
Novak's column was in July of 2004,
and Joe Wilson was speaking at some left-wing think tank on how Iraq was such a boondoggle and what's next for the leftist movement,
and they got a little biographical blurb next to Wilson's picture, and it mentions that he is the wife of Valerie Plame --
and then I went back and I found a Washington Times story from this past summer in which --
oh wait, I forgot this. One of the elements that was being leaked last night was that the FBI was roaming through the Wilsons' neighborhood yesterday knocking on doors --
"Hello, anybody home?"
-- asking if they knew that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.

So I'm sitting there; I'm scratching my head.
Wait a minute.
That's what this was all about two years ago
and they're just now getting around to it now?
I mean, you would think they would have had this wrapped up within the first three months. You go door-to-door. You ask anybody in the neighborhood,

"Hey, do you know that your neighbor over here worked for the CIA?"
But they were just doing it yesterday, according to the news they were just doing it yesterday --
and the FBI agent's name was mentioned as well.
It's awfully suspicious.
It's awfully odd for that to happen -- and they quote some neighbor.
"I didn't know."
Well, what would you say if the FBI comes knocking on your door and asks,
"Did you know?"
with all this going on in Washington?
This is where this darling couple, the Wilsons, reside.
What would you say if some FBI agent knocks on the door and says,
"Did you know that a woman who lives down the street or across the street, whatever, next door to you, was a former secret operative of the CIA?"

"I didn't know,"
or would you say, "Hell yes, I knew, and everybody here knew."

"How did you know?
Well, we want to subpoena you. We're going to bring you down to the grand jury."

What are you going to say?
But this Washington Times story from this past summer mentions that everybody in their neighborhood knew.
So I'm going to present all this to you in a chronological order here after the break. We're not going to spend nearly as much time on it today as we did yesterday because we've pretty much made our point here, but I do want to deal with the latest.
This is more than a media conniption, folks. This is childish.
This is amateurish.
This is the way four- and five-year-olds behave on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
and if they don't get what they want, the parents are going to have hell to pay here. Santa Claus, whoever, will have hell to pay.
But get this: CNN reported this CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

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RUSH: Nine in ten say they believe the Bush administration did something illegal

-- is that what that means?
-- or unethical in connection with the leaking of the CIA operative's identity.
Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials acted illegally in the matter in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was revealed.
The same percentage said that the administration officials acted unethically but did nothing illegal, 39%.
So with all this media coverage,
with all this slam-dunk assuredness that there will be indictments,
and it's Rove and Libby
and it may go as high as Cheney,
and it may go to Bush,
and we may be able to go back and indict Nixon all over again for this
because of his former ties to the CIA. I mean, who knows how far they want to go with it?
You would think that far more than 39% were convinced or would be convinced of the guilt of people in the White House.
This has to be just a depressing poll, given that it's CNN/USA Today/Gallup. John Dean wrote a column for Find Law. John Dean basically said,
"It is difficult to envision Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuting anyone,
particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, who believed they were acting for reasons of national security.
While hindsight may find their judgment was wrong, and there is no question their tactics were very heavy-handed and dangerous, I am not certain that they were acting from other than what they believed to be reasons of national security.
They were selling a war they felt needed to be undertaken. In short, I cannot imagine any of them being indicted, unless they were acting for reasons other than national security.
Because national security is such a gray area of the law, come next week, I can see this entire investigation coming to a remarkable anti-climax, as Fitzgerald closes down his Washington Office and returns to Chicago.
In short, I think the frenzy is about to end -- and it will not go any further."
That's John Dean.
Now, he'd have to be right for the first time in his life for this to have any weight,
but we can hope.
But, really, if what's happening here,
if the special prosecutor is in fact pursuing Dick Cheney and Libby because they targeted Joe Wilson,
it essentially is just a policy dispute that they're trying to criminalize.
Wilson thinks one thing about Iraq
and Cheney and Scooter Libby think another,
and because Cheney and Scooter Libby think one thing and Wilson doesn't,
and they start trying to discredit Wilson, they're going to turn that into a crime?
That's what Dean's essentially saying. He cannot imagine any prosecutor doing that.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here's this Washington Times story. It's from July 15th of this year,
and I remember reporting this to you at the time it came out.
"The partisan fight over Karl Rove exploded onto the Senate floor yesterday, with Democrats trying to strip him of his security clearance
and Republicans retaliating by trying to strip the chamber's two top Democrats of theirs."
Anyway you go down to the later part of the story.
"A former CIA covert agent who supervised Mrs. Plame early in her career yesterday took issue with her identification as an 'undercover agent,'
saying that she worked for more than five years at the agency's headquarters in Langley
and that most of her neighbors and friends knew that she was a CIA employee.
Fred Rustmann, a covert agent from 1966 to 1990, told The Washington Times.
'She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat,'
'Her neighbors knew this,
her friends knew this,
his friends knew this.
A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren't minding the store here.
... The agency never changed her cover status.'
Mr. Rustmann, who spent 20 of his 24 years in the agency under 'nonofficial cover' --
also known as a NOC, the same status as the wife of Mr. Wilson
-- also said that she worked under extremely light cover.
In addition,
Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment,
married Mr. Wilson and had twins,
(That was in) USA Today reported (on July 14th)yesterday.
The distinction matters because a law that forbids disclosing the name of undercover CIA operatives applies to agents that had been on overseas assignment 'within the last five years.'"

She wasn't.
It's moot.
The original purpose for this investigation cannot be what's still going on.
If all of this is true, there really can be no crime in terms of outing this woman and her status. Mr. Rustmann said,

"'She was home for such a long time,
she went to work every day at Langley,
she was in an analytical type job,
she was married to a high-profile diplomat with two kids.
Most people who knew Valerie and her husband, I think, would have thought that she was an overt CIA employee.
' Asked whether his wife had been compromised before the press leak, Mr. Wilson said,
'I have no idea,'
though he said that her work has had to change since the leaks.
'My wife's status is that she is back at work, obviously in a different capacity, and she no longer has the cover that she once held,'
he said,"
and if you will recall, ladies and gentlemen,
we also uncovered at that time, last July, that Mrs. Wilson had been active politically,
making donations to Al Gore's presidential campaign and also to America Coming Together -- and she did so under the name of Valerie Plame.
It says here -- and I've got a campaign contribution search.
"Valerie Plame, 42,"
lists her bio,
CIA operative. She gave a thousand dollars to Al Gore in April of 1999;
$372 to a special interest group, Americans Coming Together on October 11th of '04.
When contributing to Gore back in 1999, her employment is listed as Brewster, Jennings & Associates.
As you recall that's a CIA front group.

So here you have this agent
who is supposedly working under deep cover
and to release her identity would be to threaten her life and put it at risk, and everybody who knew her.
Here she is contributing as Valerie Wilson, Brewster, Jennings & Associates, publicly making these donations to the Al Gore campaign.
So all this news we had for you last summer.
But the reason I bring this up is because the press is still on this.
We're back to the same thing we were yesterday. The press is ignoring its own body of work.
History begins today,
as far as the press is concerned. New York Times, Washington Post ignoring what they wrote about this back in 1998 in terms of the weapons of mass destruction
and now ignoring what has been published and known about Valerie Plame, Valerie Wilson, since at least last summer,
especially with this notion
that everybody in her neighborhood knew who she was
and that she and her husband were not keeping quiet about it,
and I mention this only because it was a big deal last night,
some leak,
some leak from somewhere
saying the FBI is in the neighborhood interviewing people,
and you gotta figure,

"What's this about?"
This is something that you would do two weeks ago,
or two years ago.
You would do this in the first two weeks of your investigation.
They're just now sending an FBI agent in there? What could be going on?
So FBI agents
"as recently as Monday night interviewed at least two people in her neighborhood to determine whether they knew she worked for the CIA before she was unmasked with the help of senior Bush administration officials."

This is from press accounts last night.

"Two neighbors told the FBI they were shocked to learn that she was a CIA operative. The FBI interview..."
Listen to this.
"The FBI interview suggested the prosecutor wanted to show
that Plame's status was covert
and that there was damage from the revelation that she worked for the CIA."
Now, that's a press report,
and that is total guesswork.
That is nothing more than an assumption.
There's no official word from the prosecutor's office that that's what they're doing.
That whole sentence is nothing more than an assumption.
"The FBI interview suggested that the prosecutor wanted to show that Plame's status was covert."
Everybody in the world knows that it wasn't.
By virtue of the statute, it wasn't.
Now, how does this prove anything anyway? The statute doesn't say anything about neighbors knowing.
This is just media hopefulness.
They could also be trying to determine if Plame failed to keep her supposed status secret herself.
That's what they could be trying to do.
Who knows where they're going here. But to make these assumptions
based on what is desired
as an outcome is precisely what's going on. That's why I continue to say that we are dealing specifically with a near scandalous media, ladies and gentlemen,
and we've got this contribution to Gore in 2000,
noted in the public report,
mentions her under her maiden named,
identified her CIA front company.
We have a public website
in which Wilson himself mentioned her by the name Plame in June of 2004
which is one month before the Novak piece.
The idea that she
or he
were concerned about revealing her seems ridiculous,
and keep in mind this forum that Wilson attended was substantial,
had all kinds of representatives from foreign governments.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Here is the information
that Wilson himself put out on his wife.
The 2003 Iraq Forum,
June 14th, 2003,
Washington, DC,
and it lists
-- there's three pages of speakers here,
and they're from all over the world,
and on the last page, you get to Joe Wilson, under the section,
"Evening public lecture, a state-of-the-movement address,"
and it lists the keynote speaker,
Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst,
and ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Now, listen to the bio that accompanies Wilson's picture
on the website promoting the 2003 Iraqi forum.
Again, this is one full month before Novak's column came out
identifying her.
"Joseph C. Wilson IV blah,"
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
"Ambassador Wilson graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in '72. He's been decorated as a commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star by the government of Gabon and as an admiral in the El Paso Navy by the El Paso County commissioners.
He is married to former Valerie Plame and has four children."
So he outs his wife's name: Valerie Plame.

Now, I'm telling you that the concern over all this is,

"Well, if she's running around using the name Valerie Plame,
and is known as an agent at the CIA,
anybody who knows her
from her CIA work will then know
that she's Joe Wilson's wife."
So he puts her name out there. He also allows Vanity Fair to photograph them on the cover of the magazine.
So the point here is that
Patrick Fitzgerald will not have an easy time
if he goes for revelation of her identity.
She will have to take the stand as will Wilson,
and all their public appearances and various social contacts will become relevant. So if they're sill pursuing this notion
that the real crime here --
and the reason he asked this, and speculated,
because they're sending FBI agents into the neighborhood
and asking neighbors if they knew that she worked at the CIA.
So I find this amazing.
I can't believe they're still working on that aspect of this,
and it could be for any reason whatsoever.

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(Washington Times: Rove fight escalates - 07.15.05)

(Washington Post: Indictment is possible today in CIA leak case)

(RushLimbaugh.com: Christmas Eve for Media, Waiting for Indictments - 10.25.05)

(New York Times: Leak Counsel Is Said to Press on Rove's Role) (Washington Post: Bush aides brace for charges)

[Yosemitest]

Thank you again Rush, for your truly outstanding research and fore all your hard work.

This ought to be required reading, and listening while reading, to all our voters and high-school students.

[Peach]

Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment, married Mr. Wilson and had twins.

(That was in) USA Today reported (on July 14th). The distinction matters because a law that forbids disclosing the name of undercover CIA operatives applies to agents that had been on overseas assignment 'within the last five years.'

[Homer1]

Couldv their reason for being in the neighborhood be the fact that the Wilsom's lawyer (Christopher Wolf) is also their next-door neighbor?

[sarasmom]

Bravo for Rush, but why should children concern themselves with news analysis?
My child knows to treat the media just as she treats product advertisements.
Things not to be taken at face value.

[petercooper]

[advance_copy]

The media had a lot of egg on its face by the time it was over last night. Gee, wonder who threw that egg at them? I bet his initials are "K" "R".

[Blood of Tyrants]

There will be no indictments because there was no crime committed.

[Stellar Dendrite]

indict the media, they commit crimes on a daily basis.

[UB355]

save

[tsmith130]

When this whole thing first broke, I thought I read somewhere (here maybe) that Joe Wilson's bio in Who's Who listed his wife as Valerie Plame. Anyone else remember that?

[PeskyOne]

I hope they were there to tell him his clients were being targeted for an indictment. After reading your post, I went back and read Christopher Wolf's article, A Neighbor's View of Valerie Plame's Outing, which can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-07-24-wilson-neighbor_x.htm

I can't believe he lived by the Wilson's as long as he did and socialized with them, and did not know what she did! He should be called in to testify under oath and given a lie detector test.

[Gondring]

Funny...I don't see a campaign contribution from "Valerie Plame" to Gore in 1999. I see

WILSON, VALERIE E MS;WASHINGTON,DC 20007
BREWSTER-JENNINGS & ASSOC.
$1,000 to Gore on 4/22/1999

and

WILSON, VALERIE E; WASHINGTON,DC 20007
N/A/RETIRED
$372 to America Coming Together on 10/11/2004

I wonder where Rush is getting his info.

[tsmith130]

Check it out: Photocopy of Joseph Wilson's Who's Who entry.

Scroll down the page a bit. Looks like Joe outted her quite awhile ago.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

EPIC Iraq Forum 2003(June 14th, 2003) -Wilson's bio is second from bottom of page.

I haven't listened to the audio yet cause I just ate dinner.

[Smartaleck]

"I wonder where Rush is getting his info."

Yeah he's off of this one. Could be however, a good reporter or someone outside gov't, could see both the Plame and Wilson name show up in association with Joe, do some research and make a connection.

[NickatNite2003]

Hey Joe...Everybody's got somethin to hide
'cept for you, and your monkey, eh?

Well, maybe your monkey....You old rogue, you!
>B-)

[popdonnelly]

Wolf is their lawyer. He's not going to say anything that would jeopardize their civil suit against the government.

[Yosemitest]

Godd for you, ... and your well-educated children.

And to add more to the topic...

Nothing Yet Under Media Christmas Tree

October 26, 2005

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RUSH: All right, here's the latest on the CIA news. Folks, I can't tell you how happy this makes me if only because I know how utterly let-down, depressed and destroyed the media is today,
because today was The Day!
This was Christmas morning.
The packages were going to be there under the tree -- sealed, yes, but you know how kids are with packages. It doesn't take long to open them, and they were going to open those indictments, and they were going to find out that it was Rove and that it was Libby and that it was Cheney -- and maybe a couple of other surprises thrown in! Why, they've been telling us for the past three weeks,
"Indictments are coming tomorrow or the next day."
They told us last night the indictments were coming today. They told us the indictments have been prepared. The indictments were sealed; one to five. Scooter Libby and Karl Rove and maybe Cheney.
First, Reuters:
"Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he was done today after meeting with the grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Grand jurors left the courthouse earlier. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has left district court, is not expected back to court today. Fitzgerald later left the building following the session with no comment. The grand jurors were also seen leaving the building with no announcement of any indictments."

From the Associated Press:

"The federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity met for three hours Wednesday with Patrick Fitzgerald and adjourned for the day without announcing any action. Fitzgerald is known to be putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe. After the grand jury left for the day, federal prosecutors conferred for about an hour in the grand jury area of the federal courthouse. There was no word on whether Fitzgerald planned to make any announcement or whether the grand jury planned to even meet again."
They're lost.
Of all the news they were expected, folks, do you understand? Santa Claus didn't show! It's not that there's sticks or stones or whatever little, puppy dog tails under the tree. There's nothing there --
and it's only 1:30!
He's giving up at 1:30?
There's a full day! He could have gotten the indictments!
He quit?
The media is going to be concerned here, because they'll say,
"You know, it would seem to take more time than this to get big indictments. If you go in front of a grand jury and have big indictments coming,"
and they met with him and he got nothing and so forth?
(interruption) Ronnie? Yeah, yeah, Ronnie Earle!
"If he didn't like it he would have gotten a new grand jury in there; what's this Fitzgerald guy doing?
Why can't they do what Ronnie Earle did?
'Three grand juries fail,
fine! I'll get a fourth,
and I'll get a foreman who doesn't care about the evidence,
and then we'll get an indictment.'
Why can't you do what Ronnie Earle did?"
I'm telling you, you can't imagine how this news -- even though maybe it just constitutes a delay and nothing more.
They were so convinced, folks, it was happening today. All week it was gonna happen Wednesday.
Now Fitzgerald has gone home. He may have gone to the country club, who knows? May go out and play golf. Don't know what the guy does at 1:30 in the afternoon, but the grand jurors have gone home, too.
You know what?
Maybe the FBI agent found some neighbors that said,
"Oh, yeah, we knew she was CIA. She flew the CIA flag out in front of the house."
Maybe Fitzgerald said,
"Ah, I got a problem here."
Who knows?
We don't know, folks, we can speculate just as easily as can the media.

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RUSH: This is Raleigh, North Carolina,
hello, Bill, you're next. Nice to have you with us, sir.

CALLER: Thank you for having me, Rush.

RUSH: You bet.

CALLER: Um, so, yeah. Essentially I'm just kind of baffled by your, uh, Santa analogy and Christmas morning analogy. Ummm... I just don't understand.
Are you trying to trivialize the fact that, uh, he's trying -- Fitzgerald is trying -- to make sure he has his facts in line before he, uh, actually, you know, goes about doing his indictments?
Because, uh, you know, it seems to me that the administration could take something from this and, you know, make sure that they have all their facts straight before they go into sumthin'.

RUSH: You know,
I sit here in stunned amazement
at how some of you hear what is said articulately and clearly on this program.

CALLER: Well, I mean, uh, not to belittle you, Rush,
but I don't take all my news from your program.

RUSH: Well, but you're obviously responding to something you heard on the program just now,
and you heard something I didn't say.

CALLER: Well, no.

RUSH: You actually --

CALLER: You said that the media was waiting for this like it was Christmas morning and that --

RUSH: Damn right, they are! There's no question.
You can't deny that. So are you.

CALLER: No, I mean, I'm not going to deny that, but, I mean,
for one thing I don't understand why they picked, uh, Fitzgerald in the first place.
Wouldn't have Ashcroft have been a better selection?
I mean, he was initially tapped to do this, wasn't he?

RUSH: Well, let's stay focused here,
because Fitzgerald is the choice,
and why they didn't choose somebody else is moot now.
So the point is you think
-- are you not happy with Fitzgerald? When did that happen?

CALLER: No, I'm not unhappy with Fitzgerald at all.

RUSH: Why?

CALLER: I want to make sure that he has his facts in order.
Because Libby set out in early 2003 to smear Joseph Wilson, the CIA agent [sic] Valerie Plame's husband.
It was a smear campaign, and,
you know, he was told to back off in 2004.

RUSH: So what? They're entitled to "smear" Joseph Wilson.
Is Joseph Wilson Jesus Christ?

CALLER: Is Joseph Wilson Jesus Christ?

RUSH: Is Joseph Wilson infallible? Is he the Pope? Is Joseph Wilson God?

CALLER: (laughing)

RUSH: Joseph Wilson is a liar.
He's a liar, Bill.
The people you're willing to throw in with here have me stupefied.

CALLER: Hold on, hold on, hold on. You're equating --
alright, so first it was the Santa Claus analogy
and now Joseph Wilson is Jesus Christ?

RUSH: What?
But...
This is a political dispute. You "smear" your enemies.
"Smear" in this case meaning they disagree with him.
He's out there lying about them!

CALLER: No, no, no --

RUSH: The smear here is Joseph Wilson.
Joseph Wilson is conducting the smear.
He and his wife started this thing as a smear!
But, look,
what I just said about Christmas morning: the media has been salivating.
You admitted it.
You're looking at it as Christmas morning, too.
All I said was (sobbing),

"There are no indictments today."
They had predicted it today. I'm just simply saying the media is depressed today, media let down. Think, folks.
Have you ever been as a kid so excited; you were promised something was coming in the mail that you wanted more than anything in the world, and it didn't show up?
You know how you felt?
That's all I'm saying is how they feel today.
That's not a comment on how well or not Fitzgerald is doing his job.
I'm not suggesting that Fitzgerald is not taking the time on dot the I's and cross the T's.
I don't know what Fitzgerald is doing.
All I'm telling you is what I do know,
and that's the psychological and emotional reaction the left is having today.
They're looking at Fitzgerald giving up at 1:30 in the afternoon, calling it a day, releasing the grand jury on the day they were expecting indictments
-- the day they were hoping, they were praying. They've been promising everybody,
"Indictments coming today,"
this week, last week, week before last!
They still don't have the indictments.
They're out there on a limb.
It's a very small limb.
We've got a media scandal going on.
Their credibility is at stake.
They've been lying about leaks.
They've been lying about inside sources -- obviously,
because the sources have been telling them indictments are coming today
-- and whoever the sources are don't know anything, either.
All I'm trying to point out is
what the media reaction is.
I'm not commenting on what Fitzgerald is doing,
and I won't
until he does something,
because I don't know,
which is the whole point.

END TRANSCRIPT

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(Washington Post: Husband Is Conspicuous in Leak Case)

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(Christmas Eve for Media, Waiting for Indictments - 10.25.05)

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[Mo1]

WILSON, VALERIE E MS;WASHINGTON,DC 20007 BREWSTER-JENNINGS & ASSOC.
$1,000 to Gore on 4/22/1999

She used the name of the fake CIA company in that donation

[bitt]

heard it live and purposfully 'got lost' to keep driving so as to hear the end of the bit.

[Yosemitest]

Thanks for the link: A neighbor's view of Valerie Wilson's 'outing' , By Christopher Wolf Posted 7/24/2005 8:45 PM at www.usatoday.com.

[Gondring]

Yes. I'm missing the point. Did she have a fake name, too? Wasn't Valerie Wilson supposedly employed by Brewster-Jennings & Assoc?

[blogblogginaway]

Oooooooooh my goodness. I never thought of that! Excellent point!

[blogblogginaway]

Follow the red arrow to the circle. Lots of people speculate this is how Novak knew her name as 'Plame'.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilson.whoswho.pdf

[p23185]

Thank you again Rush, for your truly outstanding research and fore all your hard work.

Ditto

[sissyjane]

Okay--I read the article and now I want to Hurl. Barf-o- rama.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Also see: Wilson was the first person to expose Valerie Plame

[Sooth2222]

Hmmmmm. Born in 1949...OK, so how did Wilson manage to miss serving in Vietnam?

[pnut22]

Anyone with a computer could associate Wilson and Flame. They lived together at the Watergate before they married(and before Joe divorced). http://cryptome.sabotage.org/plame-eyeball.htm
VALERIE PLAME - 2700 VA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20090 UNLISTED
[Watergate Complex 2700 Virginia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20037

[FreedomCalls]

That's interesting but strange way. It lists his first wife, a Susan Dale Otchis, married 1973, divorced 1986. Then skips forward to his marriage to Valerie Plame in 1998. It leaves out his marriage to the "former French diplomat" named Jaqueline. He was married to her for 12 years. Does anyone have any information on her? It seems really strange that the forged Niger papers come from the French and here we have Joe Wilson married for 12 years to a former French diplomat and he's trying to keep that covered up. Is there any connection?

[Mo1]

Valarie Plame worked for Brewster-Jennings & Assoc

[cricket]

The truth is - and has been - 'out there'. . Of course, It.might as well be broadcast on Mars; given that it is largley ignored in favor of the 'create your own reality' predisposition and determination of the Leftist MSM.

The fact that '1 in 10' believe that Bush people are guilty of a crime here; tells us that no matter how this pans out; the Libs are ahead in their own game. But how could they not be?

No credible White House response to the Lib/Left, WOT. . .that would be the MSM et al. . .with their aggregious assaults . . .their own 'contrived terror plots' against President Bush; his Administration; our Military and in total. . .against America.

Disgusted with the ' too late smart' Repubs and that includes President Bush.

What WERE they thinking when they watched this scenario go from a bad joke to a 'viable - depends on the meaning of viable - threat'?

[uncbob]

because they're sending FBI agents into the neighborhood and asking neighbors if they knew that she worked at the CIA. So I find this amazing. I can't believe they're still working on that aspect of this, and it could be for any reason whatsoever.

Which if true means Fitz is at best incompetent especially at this late stage or else has been bullied by the MSM to come up with something

[stratman1969]

there's also this link to the Middle East institute (now web archived)

http://web.archive.org/web/20030720060539/http://www.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html

[Gondring]

Ping

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the link!

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[kcvl]

Matt Cooper on the morning that Tenet's statement was released - "Rove told me material was going to be declassified in the coming days that would cast doubt on Wilson's mission and his findings."


Based on this TIME account, following the Walter Pincus article of June 12 there were lots of reporters asking lots of government officials about the Wilson trip. Newsday found "more than two dozen" journalists swept up in Fitzgerald's review of the administration contacts.


Pincus article:

Armed with information purportedly showing that Iraqi officials had been seeking to buy uranium in Niger one or two years earlier, the CIA in early February 2002 dispatched a retired U.S. ambassador to the country to investigate the claims, according to the senior U.S. officials and the former government official, who is familiar with the event. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity and on condition that the name of the former ambassador not be disclosed.


SSCI report (p. 41):

The CIA has told Committee staff that the former ambassador did not have a "formal" security clearance but had been given an "operational clearance" up to the Secret level for the purposes of his potential visit to Niger.

...DO officials told Committee staff that they promised the former ambassador that they would keep his relationship with CIA confidential, but did not ask the former ambassador to do the same and did not ask him to sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement. The former ambassador left for Niger on February 21, 2002.


oe Wilson--What I didn't find in Africa

"...Before I left Niger, I briefed the ambassador on my findings, which were consistent with her own. I also shared my conclusions with members of her staff. In early March, I arrived in Washington and promptly provided a detailed briefing to the C.I.A. I later shared my conclusions with the State Department African Affairs Bureau. There was nothing secret or earth-shattering in my report, just as there was nothing secret about my trip..."


Per the WaPo:

"Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, has testified that he learned Plame's name from Novak a few days before telling another reporter she worked at the CIA and played a role in her husband's mission, according to a lawyer familiar with Rove's account. Rove has also testified that the first time he saw the State Department memo was when "people in the special prosecutor's office" showed it to him, said Robert Luskin, his attorney.

"He had not seen it or heard about it before that time," Luskin said."

[cricket]

morning bump. . .

[fight_truth_decay]

bttt

[weegee]

BUMP

[ravingnutter]

See Post #42

Also:

Wilson (as Ambassador to Gabon) had/has connections to the Gabon Chief of State, Omar Bongo, who was the chief African ally of the French oil company TotalFinaElf, a major beneficiary of the Oil-for-Food bribes. Prior to the Iraq War, they had a contract with Saddam's regime worth an estimated 12.5 to 27.0 billion barrels of oil reserves. Also he had connections via the Middle East Institute and Rock Creek, both of which are Saudi controlled.

Wilson's wife Jacqueline was also apparently a lobbyist for Bongo and it seems Wilson was pretty chummy with Saddam's weapons buyer, having dinner with him on the eve that Kuwait was invaded in 1990. That makes it very clear that there are connections to oil-for-food. No wonder Wilson can afford his lifestyle.

Source: Posts 21 and 22

[Sacajaweau]

Joe contributed $2000 in his own name. They refunded $1000 to him per guidelines. Valerie contributed $1000 the same day Joe got his refund. It's her address that was the tipoff. It's a phony CIA address.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Howlin]

The relevant text is "m. Valerie Elise Plame, Apr. 3, 1998," which not only appears in the 2003 edition, but ALL editions from 1999-2005!