Errant former ambassador (Wilson)

townhall.com ^ | 7/15/04 | Robert Novak

[formercalifornian]

Is this getting out into the mainstream anywhere? Squawking Dems should be eating their hats over this.

[Eva]

We need to demand an apology from John Kerry for pushing this story to the media. This was the work of Chris Lehane, while working for the Kerry campaign.

[Mo1]

Plame sent out an internal CIA memo saying that "my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." A State Department analyst told the committee about an inter-agency meeting in 2002 that was "apparently convened by [Wilson's] wife who had the idea to dispatch [him] to use his contacts to sort out the Iraq-Niger uranium issue."

I still want to know WHY Valarie suggested her husband would be the best choice to go???

Has the Committee asked her??

[nopardons]

Not a single person has talked with her,evidently,but there should be,no,MUST BE,An investigation of her now.

[nopardons]

Nope,it's completely gone from the news...except on FNC.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I still want to know WHY Valarie suggested her husband would be the best choice to go???

The only thing I can think of is, Joe Wilson needed a vacation.

[Mo1]

Nobody??

I find that just amazing .. she is the one that started this by sending a memo suggesting her husband should be the one to investigate the claim .. a man who has NONE .. NADDA .. No CIA experience

And nobody thinks she should be questioned?? .. Unbelievable

[nopardons]

Alice in Wonderland time...

Nobody,not a one,has EVER talked to her,made her appear before a committee,had a wee chat with her,that anyone knows about.

[CyberAnt]

"WHY Valarie suggested her husband would be the best choice to go"

I have always thought it was because Hillary asked Valerie to suggest her husband. The Wilson's have been fundraisers for the Clintons for years.

When the Clintons were in London promoting Hillary's book, Bill Clinton told Tony Blair that he better dump Bush because if he didn't, Tony was going to get taken down with Bush (this conversation took place just before the Wilson story broke). This story was only reported in one UK newspaper.

It's great to see that both Bush/Blair have survived this attack.

[prognostigaator]

" For a year, Democrats have been belaboring President Bush about 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union address

in which he reported Saddam Hussein's attempt to buy uranium from Africa, based on official British information.

Wilson has been lionized in liberal circles for allegedly contradicting this information on a CIA mission and then being punished as a truth-teller.

Now, for Intelligence Committee Democrats, it is as though the Niger question and Joe Wilson have vanished from the earth."

Mr. Novak, tear down that wall....of silence.........

[Mo1]

I have always thought it was because Hillary asked Valerie to suggest her husband. The Wilson's have been fundraisers for the Clintons for years.

Possible .. the Wilson's and the Clinton's have a loooooooong history

All I know is it's the committees job to find out what happen and WHY she suggested her husband

[leadpenny]

Novak is syndicated. This column should be at news stands and on driveways all over the country right now. Well, out west soon enough. Maybe Timmy Russert or one of the other Sunday talk gurus will also do the honorable thing and have Novak on as a guest.

[CyberAnt]

"committees job to find out what happen and WHY she suggested her husband"

Yes .. I agree. But .. I wonder if they will pursue it?

[malia]

"While there was no dispute with the underlying facts," Chairman Roberts wrote separately, "my Democrat colleagues refused to allow" two conclusions in the report. The first conclusion merely said that Wilson was sent to Niger at his wife's suggestion._"

uh, excuse me but just who was chairman of this committee? Refused, get real!

I watched Roberts all Sunday morning with Rockerfeller, sitting in the background, mumbling a few words and now I read this!!!

[Miss Marple]

Ping for news ignored in the mainstream press!

[billhilly]

Chris Lehane, the boy from Maine. Remember the story about George W's drunk driving just before the election?

[BigSkyFreeper]

The whole thing, to borrow a phrase, is "sexed up" by the media to implicate the Bush administration, when the whole Niger fiasco went down during the Clinton administration.

Nobody in the media gave a rats butt about it, even at the time of the Novak article in July of 2002, until 6 months later when Plame and Wilson decided to make a buck off of it by doing interviews and writing a book about it.

[GailA]

Dubya bump

[PGalt]

Thanks for FINALLY speaking out Beltway Bob. I apologize for the bad comments I made about you recently (Baghdad/Beltway, Bobenabler, traitor, useful idiot). Your silence was making me wonder, as The Crime Syndicate was using you as conduit to take down the President.

Is that your FINAL ANSWER?