Posted on 03/03/2004 11:58:03 AM PST by Quilla
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson will reveal the name of the person he thinks leaked his wife's identity as an undercover CIA (news - web sites) officer in a book due out in May, his publisher said Tuesday.
A federal grand jury has heard testimony from at least four White House officials in its investigation to identify the leaker of Valerie Plame's name to syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who published the name in his syndicated column last July. Numerous other officials have been interviewed by the FBI (news - web sites).
Spokeswoman Karen Auerbach of the Avalon Publishing Group in New York said she did not know the identity of the purported leaker.
Novak said in his July 14 column that his sources were two unidentified senior administration officials. Novak has not commented about the matter during the grand jury investigation.
Wilson's book, "The Politics of Truth," is scheduled to come out May 20.
Publication of the book and Wilson's accompanying promotional tour could have political overtones because he is now a foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry (news - web sites). Democrats are seeking to raise questions of credibility in the minds of voters about the reasons President Bush (news - web sites) went to war.
Wilson did not return telephone calls seeking comment for this story. He has previously contended that White House political adviser Karl Rove condoned the leak but was not the actual leaker.
After Novak's column appeared, Wilson said other reporters told him that Rove had characterized Plame as "fair game" because of Wilson's criticism of the White House's uses of intelligence before the Iraq (news - web sites) war.
The White House has repeatedly denied that Rove was the leaker.
Wilson was enlisted by the CIA to investigate whether Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. He said he found no evidence of such an attempt and has accused the Bush administration of exaggerating Iraq's nuclear capabilities to build support for war.
A description of the book on the publishing company's Web site says Wilson's conclusions about the Niger uranium were "brushed aside" by the administration.
The grand jury has continued to meet regularly in Washington under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago, who was appointed by Deputy Attorney General James Comey to oversee the probe. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) disqualified himself from the case in December in the face of Democratic criticism of his close political ties to the White House.
The leaker could be charged with a felony that carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Noooo. Ya think?! The Left/Dems wouldn't play cheap gutter politics with this nation's security in a post-9/11 world, now would they. They wouldn't lie and maliciously throw mud on matters of war and peace. Not for cheap political gain. Not when the lives of our military are still on the line. Not the "caring" party. Not "war hero" John Kerry and his minions. Say it ain't true! [end sarcasm]
Nope. He leaked it himself in his book "The Politics of Truth."
Check it out next time you're in a book store.
He claimed his wife was CIA. He just didn't give her name, but who can't figure that one out? Duh!
Ah yes, the Newsday journalists, famous for their anonymous intelligence sources. And their boss was just mystified how they would become part of the investigation.
That must be one lousy book. No sex? Who he thinks might have leaked something? Will he confess just who it might have been that told him there was no santa? How about just who it was who said that he promised he wouldn't cu$ in his mom?
If Wilson accuses someone who is innocent, can that person sue for libel, or is that impossible when you're a "public figure"?
We can expect that toad, Wilson, to say this, but the publishing company ought to know that "the administration" cannot "brush aside" something it was never told about.
Clymers.
How I long for Wilson to take the perp walk.
A Kerry Administration would be the biggest circus. We would all have a greater appreciation for Carter and Clinton.
I think even the Dems know that four years of Kerry would result in at least 16 years of Republican rule. Kerry isn't going to be president.
Could it be...Plame herself? Who leaked to the BBC the Niger fable even before Joe's NYtimes piece?
Gee, I'll have to rush out and buy this scumbag's book.
What a mouse.
And he helpfully supplied that, too, (using the phrase "the former Valerie Plame"), in his bio which is easily available right online.
You are correct. It's been plain from the beginning that he and his wife and her immediate circle were the leakers.
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