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Ex-Ambassador Wilson to Name Names
AP via Yahoo ^ | March 2, 2004 | Curt Anderson

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cialeak; josephwilson; kerry; plame; wilson
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To: Spotsy
"pro-business" radicals

To liberals, that's anyone who believes that a businessman should be able to keep most of what he has earned instead of having his earnings taxed at ninety percent.

81 posted on 04/09/2004 1:56:42 PM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: Shermy
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson will reveal the name of the person he thinks leaked his wife's identity...

Gotta yawn, 'cause Joe is boring me. Hey, Joe, I thought you already did this — didn't you blame Karl Rove awhile back? In any case, I hope whoever you name in your tome is totally innocent so he or she can sue your arse six ways from Sunday.

82 posted on 04/09/2004 3:41:32 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Kerry says Al-Sadr aligning with Hamas & Hezbollah is SORT OF a terrorist alignment.)
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To: Quilla
First the spread in Vanity Fair and now a book.

He was also angling for a movie deal, but don't know if he got one.

83 posted on 04/09/2004 3:42:52 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Kerry says Al-Sadr aligning with Hamas & Hezbollah is SORT OF a terrorist alignment.)
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To: Quilla
Identify him by his code name - Deep Throat.

"Hey, I want some of the money Clarke just made!"

84 posted on 04/09/2004 3:44:23 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Thud; Quilla; Wolfstar; mrustow; Jeff Gannon
Wilson’s Book Circulating in Washington—Examines Role of Media “Very Closely”

"...In 2002 the CIA sent Wilson to Niger to investigate an allegation that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium there. If true, it would have buttressed Bush’s assertions that Iraq was making nuclear bombs. Wilson reported that the allegations were not accurate, but Bush repeated them in a 16-word section of his 2003 State of the Union address.

Wilson then wrote “What I Didn’t Find In Africa,” a New York Times essay last summer about his trip to Niger and the nonexistent uranium.

“I write in the book about why I went ahead and wrote the Times piece,” Wilson says, “and the consequences to my family.”

But will he say Bush lied? Will he say Bush referred to "Niger"? Hmmm...

85 posted on 04/09/2004 3:56:51 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
But will he say Bush lied? Will he say Bush referred to "Niger"? Hmmm...

Apparently, there are a series of books by Leftist authors scheduled to come out at a rate of about one a month or so through the election. All will attempt to discredit President Bush and his administration. Bob Woodward has one coming out soon, and you know it will get lots of friendly coverage. That scum, John Dean, has one either out or out soon. Then there's Wilson, and who knows how many others. Sigh.

There is a full-court press on by the Left and its media shills to do everything they can to bring Bush down. I honestly think they will stop at nothing. At the moment, they are trying the tactic of savaging his reputation and the reputation of some of his closest aides. If that doesn't work, who knows what else they might try.

86 posted on 04/09/2004 4:20:19 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Kerry says Al-Sadr aligning with Hamas & Hezbollah is SORT OF a terrorist alignment.)
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To: Wolfstar
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87 posted on 04/09/2004 4:31:40 PM PDT by hmmmmm
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To: hmmmmm
You know what? I think I'm going to the bookstore this weekend and buy every book I can find that speaks to the failings of the Clinton admin.

These people are disgusting!
88 posted on 04/09/2004 4:41:51 PM PDT by highlandbreeze (....that others may live.)
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To: Quilla
He said he found no evidence of such an attempt

Sigh

He said he did not think a transaction took place.

What I Didn't Find in Africa

Excerpt:

It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.

~snip~

And that is it. That's the big "finding" of Wilson. A big nothing.

Oh, I just noticed this part of Wilson's op-ed. I've often posted George Tenet's statement on this issue. So first, here is Wilson's grandiose opinion of what reports were written up due to his trip

Though I did not file a written report, there should be at least four documents in United States government archives confirming my mission. The documents should include the ambassador's report of my debriefing in Niamey, a separate report written by the embassy staff, a C.I.A. report summing up my trip, and a specific answer from the agency to the office of the vice president (this may have been delivered orally). While I have not seen any of these reports, I have spent enough time in government to know that this is standard operating procedure.

~snip~

Here is how little Tenet thought of this. BTW, HE did not send Wilson.

Text of CIA Director George Tenet's statement

Excerpt:

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 Nigerien officials knew that what they were saying would reach the U.S. government and that this might have influenced what they said.

~snip~

Just an interesting observation.

Like Clarke, Wilson's credibility ought to have long since been deemed virtually nil. Thank goodness Clarke was exposed quickly enough.

89 posted on 04/09/2004 4:44:59 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: dirtboy
What a Clymer -- now he is going to reveal who he "THINKS" revealed the information. What kind of crap is that?
90 posted on 04/09/2004 6:08:18 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: cyncooper
"...There was fragmentary intelligence gathered in late 2001 and early 2002 on the allegations of Saddam's efforts to obtain additional raw uranium from Africa, beyond the 550 metric tons already in Iraq.

....Also in the fall of 2002, our British colleagues told us they were planning to publish an unclassified dossier that mentioned reports of Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium in Africa.

...But in the interest of completeness, the report contained three paragraphs that discuss Iraq's significant 550-metric ton uranium stockpile and how it could be diverted while under IAEA safeguard. These paragraphs also cited reports that Iraq began "vigorously trying to procure" more uranium from Niger and two other African countries, which would shorten the time Baghdad needed to produce nuclear weapons...."

Odd...

91 posted on 04/09/2004 7:02:04 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Diogenesis
You mean I am not the only one that thinks Novak is a shill for Kerry and the RATs and pretends to be conservative? Glad to see what you posted!
92 posted on 04/09/2004 7:04:25 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: SpyGuy
He did not keep Wilson. Wilson was already out of office. Valerie Plame Wilson was a civil service employee, and could not be fired unless there was just cause.

Clinton had many of his people transferred to Civil Service before he left. Many are still there. Firing them is incredibly difficult.

93 posted on 04/09/2004 7:08:48 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: SpyGuy
There was another problem with replacing some of these Clintonites -- he made them Civil Service instead of polical appointees and if you remember, the RATs in the Senate kept stalling nominations from the beginning not to mention the time before Pres Bush took office was shortened and they wouldn't allow them into Government buildings.

If you ask me, the Clintons orchestrated the whole deal to keep their people in place longer and then blame Pres Bush if something happened for not taking action. Do I believe that the Clintons knew something major was going to happen -- IMO you can take that one to the bank. Believe Clinton intentionally downplayed the Al Qaeda threat to the new Administration!
94 posted on 04/09/2004 7:09:19 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: Quilla
Okay - how long before we get the "Walking Tall" version of Wison righting the wrong done to his woman?

High noon with the 'man that done her wrong'. Perhaps on the Mall with dramatic music piped in.
95 posted on 04/09/2004 7:13:59 PM PDT by familyofman
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To: Shermy
That answer could be read as meaning a "question about the CIA" includes the question who were the "senior administration officials."

My initial thought, as well. But, remember, Novak says he called the CIA for confirmation of Plame's identity, got it...then was asked (not told) not to report it.

Novak has never revealed who he talked to in the CIA, either.

96 posted on 04/09/2004 8:25:40 PM PDT by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: dirtboy
"Yikes. A subsidiary called Nation Books. Fine company that Wilson is keeping nowadays:"

You don't suppose this publisher has an agenda, do ya?

On the other hand, the publisher may well be a free market conservative who has figured out how to enrich himself by relieving liberals of their paychecks...

On the other hand, liberals earning a paycheck represents a pretty narrow marketing niche...

97 posted on 04/09/2004 8:31:47 PM PDT by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: Shermy
This book is a new way of campaigning
Since Hillary's book (or maybe before) the rats have gotten big advances and rich rats buy them up the books by the warehouse full. It's yet another way around their campaign finance "reform" bill. Atleast the liberals get a big cheating A for getting around another so-called law. Yes, this will be looked into - immediately AFTER the election. A partisan rat commisioner will say "Naughty," fine them a whopping $50 bucks, tell them not to "forget" about following the new law next time, and that will be the end of it. /loathing and disgust
98 posted on 04/09/2004 8:33:41 PM PDT by Libertina (He is Risen - He is Risen Indeed!)
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To: Quilla
"Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson will reveal the name of the person he thinks leaked his wife's identity "

Who will be the accused?? Well, who's accusation would cause the most damage to the Bush re-election campaign, that's who.

99 posted on 04/09/2004 8:39:01 PM PDT by cookcounty (John Flipflop Kerry ---the only man to have been on BOTH sides of 3 wars!)
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To: okie01
"...Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. .."

Soundss like the SAO aren't "CIA". True.

100 posted on 04/09/2004 8:44:28 PM PDT by Shermy
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