In know y'all are interested in following this issue, so here you go.
Salon's been carrying water for Wilson since the report was released. If they insist, however, on digging the hole deeper, they're more than welcome to.
From David Corn's defense of Wilson in The Nation, 7/17/04
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1558
"The [Senate] report also notes, 'On February 19, 2002, CPD hosted a meeting with the former ambassador, intelligence analysts from both the CIA and INR [the State Department's intelligence unit], and several individuals from the [Directorate of Operations'] Africa and CPD divisions. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the merits of [Wilson] traveling to Niger. An INR analyst's notes indicate that the meeting 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.[sic, "] The former ambassador's wife told Committee staff that she only attended the meeting to introduce her husband and left after about three minutes.'"
I've heard about this memo before, I think from Jeff Gannon at Talon News, but had not seen it attributed to the State Dept INR.
This guy is just loving the limelight.
Dear Senators,
Don't believe what your eyes, all the intelligence services and the written record show as the truth. Believe me.
Sincerely, (more or less)
Joe
ps--honest!
pps--"You know who" said to tell you hello.
Two great pieces on Yellowcake Joe and his Dem/Media Stooges:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/337paflu.asp
http://www.suntimes.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi
FMCDH(BITS)
I would rather go on a cruise with the Sopranos, than Wilson, Conason, Richards, etc. Both groups could be expected to be lying lawbreakers, but the Sopranos would be far more interesting, with better taste in dinner specialties. LOL.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "John Kerry & John Edwards: You've GOT to be Kidding"
Let's see what Wilson and the wifey have to say UNDER OATH.
All this putz had to do was request the committe to provide him with the documents he was "confused" about before he made any statements to them. I'm sure he had a lawyer with him. Does anybody know who represents this jerk? His statement of "not being afforded" leads one to believe that he was denied the opportunity. He probably never even asked.
Sincerely,
Joseph C. Wilson IV, DNC Headquarters
Thanks for suffering in order the post this ....I still cant read it though ....Its making me sick
I know you want to see Wilson prosecuted, so here is something I noticed from David Corn's defense of Wilson in The Nation, 7/16/04:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1558
"What Wilson told his CIA contacts, what he told reporters, what he said in public--accurate or not--did not justify disclosing Valerie Wilson's identity. Nor did it justify the subsequent White House effort to encourage other reporters to pursue the Valerie Wilson story. The leak was thuggish and possibly felonious. And the Wilsons and others are waiting to see what comes from Fitzgerald's investigation. (NBC News reported recently that the probe had expanded to examine possible acts of perjury and lying to investigators.) There is no telling if the investigation will end with indictments or whitewashing. It has been a mostly leak-free probe, and even senior people at the Justice Department say they have no idea where Fitzgerald is heading--if anywhere."
Hopefully the expansion of the investigation into lying and perjury means the FBI is pursuing Wilson, but I think that's just wishful thinking.
INTREP - Wilsom and Plame and the Never-ending Blame Game
There was some careful crafting behind this letter. For example, his wife might not have attended the interview meeting (but as someone mentioned above, her introduction of him had an implicit endorsement), but he doesn't explain why he was at the meeting to begin with. It wasn't a show-and-tell meeting where analysts were told to bring in a secret agent and they would pick one! Obviously there was some "selling" of the idea to send Wilson beforehand.
Whole lotta parsing goin on. Somebody indict his sorry old white arse.
This just isn't enough. I want to hear about how Wilson became a paid Kerry stooge. When, in what capacity, and how much.
Some "correction". He has dug his hole and is burying himself.
Thanks for enduring Salon. Be sure to scrub your hard drive of viruses and spyware after visiting.
So now Wilson claims he never said in 30-someodd interviews that Bush lied? That should be easy enough to prove or disprove in a Lexis-Nexis search.
Does everyone forget that Bush sourced "British intelligence" before uttering the Niger claim in the SOTU address and that British intelligence has never, for a day, backtracked from that assessment?
Even if British intelligence was flat-out wrong (which it wasn't), Bush still did not lie. Nor was it an attempt to deceive Congress (to quote Wilson's charge). To say later that it didn't "rise to the level" of SOTU material only means it should have been better sourced or substantiated through American intelligence before coming out of the President's mouth in such an historic speech, not whether the statement was false. It wasn't adequately sourced for a major presidential speech. There is no admission of falsehood, as Mr. Wilson would like to portray.
If I were generous, I would say that Wilson severely misunderstood Washington's interpretation of his comments but I doubt I have need to be so sporting.
Wilson's claim is now refuted from both shores and it's up to Republicans to make this case known to the American people who were sold 30-someodd interviews of intentional deceit on the part of Mr. Wilson.
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