From yesterday's transcript:
. "BLITZER: Is there anything you want to take back right now? Any statements you made based on current information that if you had had, you would have phrased differently?
WILSON: Well, I'll tell you, I'm surprised one of the things that I've always said is that I believe the vice president himself would have been briefed on this. And in fact, on March 5th, I believe...
BLITZER: Because the report says he was never briefed on...
WILSON: That's correct. On March 5, apparently he asked for an update. My own report on this was circulated a couple of days later. But he was never specifically briefed on it.
BLITZER: And when you said he was, that was based on your previous government experience?
WILSON: Well, I have always said that the way the government works -- and I've always tried to articulate, separate out the difference between the vice president himself and the office of the vice president -- but I did believe, and I think I have said, that I believe that he was briefed. And frankly, I'm surprised that he wasn't."
Maddening isn't it? The BIGGEST lie Wilson told, the lie that formed the premise for his accusation against Bush's 16 words in the State of the Union speech, was Wilson's accusation against Cheney has been exposed.
So what happens? Wolf Blitzer gives Wilson the opportunity to weasel out of the bogus charge with that slicker than snot explanation. GRRRRR
The BIGGEST lie Wilson told, the lie that formed the premise for his accusation against Bush's 16 words in the State of the Union speech, was Wilson's accusation against Cheney has been exposed.
It's even more maddening. We've known since July 11, 2003 that Cheney, Bush, WH and Congress never were briefed on Wilson's trip. The media ignored Tenet in favor of the liar Joe:
Text of CIA Director George Tenet's statement
Excerpt:
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. In an effort to inquire about certain reports involving Niger, CIA's counter-proliferation experts, on their own initiative, asked an individual with ties to the region to make a visit to see what he could learn. He reported back to us that one of the former Nigerien (sic) officials he met stated that he was unaware of any contract being signed between Niger and rogue states for the sale of uranium during his tenure in office. The same former official also said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger. The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales. The former officials also offered details regarding Niger's processes for monitoring and transporting uranium that suggested it would be very unlikely that material could be illicitly diverted. There was no mention in the report of forged documents -- or any suggestion of the existence of documents at all.
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.
In the fall of 2002, my Deputy and I briefed hundreds of members of Congress on Iraq. We did not brief the uranium acquisition story.
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All of this information that came out in the Senate report has been out there. All the report did was supply *more* documentation to the state of the already public record. Same with the timeline of when the forgeries appeared on the scene. That was all reported in various outlets, but no reporter tied it all together as we did here. Yes, maddening!
BLITZER: All right. So now we have you, your future, Valerie Plame's future. What's next for both of you?
WILSON: Well, I don't know. Obviously, there's been this orchestrated campaign, this smear campaign. I happen to think that it's because the RNC, the Republican National Committee's, been involved in this in a big way...
BLITZER: But they weren't involved in the Senate Intelligence Committee report.
WILSON: No, they weren't. But they've certainly seized upon it as a way of smearing, sort of perpetuating the smear campaign against me. I think Valerie and I will fight back. If they think that I'm going to go away on this issue, they're wrong. And we will see where we go from there.
Poor Joe a victim of the VRWC. ROFLAO. It is evident that his wife is involved in this and by now she should agent in charge oif restroom security in Langley.