[Stultis]

See also: Wilson now has a letter out supporting Kerry's campaign.

A Letter from Ambassador Joe Wilson (Barf Warning) ^
			Posted by listenhillary On 11/03/2003 8:26 PM CST with 54 comments Email (John Kerry) | Joe Wilson A Letter from Ambassador Joe Wilson: Dear Friend, In February 2002, George W. Bush's Administration sent me to Africa to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy materials for weapons of mass destruction. In early March, I provided a detailed briefing to the C.I.A; I concluded that Iraq had most likely not tried to buy uranium in Niger. We know the rest of the story. The Bush White House tried to intimidate me and to discourage others from exposing the lies they told to justify the war. Some senior people in the Bush administration betrayed our country by...

[Shermy]

Other questions to be asked are when he first signed up as an adviser for the John Kerry campaign.

[cyncooper]

On my way out the door, but just had to make at least one comment before leaving. From the beginning of the piece:

Background: In February 2002, former Ambassador Joe Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium. He says that he told the administration that the allegations were probably false.

George Tenet says this:

Because this report, in our view, did not resolve whether Iraq was or was not seeking uranium from abroad, it was given a normal and wide distribution, but we did not brief it to the president, vice president or other senior administration officials. We also had to consider that the former Nigerian officials knew that what they were saying would reach the U.S. government and that this might have influenced what they said.

I believe Wilson said something about having credibility in this interview. Don't believe it.

(I know you don't)

[Ben Hecks]

***Wilson: Including my favorite, a respected journalist calling me up, and saying, "I just got off the phone with Karl Rove, he tells me your wife is fair game."***

My recollection is that Chrissy Matthews called Karl Rove or someone in the administration and asked something like "if Wilson's wife set him up for the Niger trip, would it be appropriate to question her on it?" The answer was a simple "yes". When Chrissy called Wilson, this changed to "they said your wife is fair game" which has a much different meaning.

[cyncooper]

I woke up this morning and thought you two ought to have this interview brought to your attention. In particular, I awoke mulling over this little nugget. Have either of you two heard anything about this? I missed the referenced NY Times piece.

Here's an excerpt from the above interview:

TN: Nicholas Kristoff wrote in the New York Times recently that the CIA believes that Aldrich Ames may have betrayed your wife to the Russians prior to his arrest in 1994. That would make her not an undercover operative for the CIA in effect.

Wilson: I don't know where Kristoff got that. I think that there is a fair amount of material in the public record to suggest that there is a lot of concern that Mr. Ames betrayed a number of American operatives during his spying.

TN: Including your wife?

Wilson: I don't know about that. I can't tell you anything about that.

TN: But if that is in fact true, then the leak is not necessarily a leak.

~snip~

[jmaroneps37]

joe who?