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This one is THE most interesting of the three you posted.
The “Confusion” Of Joseph Wilson
By Vincent Fiore (07/21/04)
Memo to the masses: When you see the words “misspoken,” “erred,” and “confused,” in relation to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, know this: These words are typical beltway qualifiers that seek to say in essence that “I lied,” without ever having to say the word “lied.”
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In his New York Times op-ed, Wilson brazenly declared: “Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.”
But as the Senate Intelligence Committee’s July 9 report of this year shows, it is Wilson who twisted intelligence to actually downplay Iraq’s nuclear threat, thereby meeting his own political agenda of helping Kerry win the election in November.
Consider the Senate committee’s findings:
-The panel found that Wilson’s report, “rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, actually bolstered the case for most intelligence analysis.”
(www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9)
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-Ambassador Wilson’s wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, “specifically recommended” Wilson for the trip to Africa. In a memo from Plame dated February 12, 2002 to the deputy chief of the Counterproliferation Division (CPD) from Plame, the Senate report concludes that according to the CIA testimony, Plame “offered up his (Wilson) name.” (www.gopusa.com/news/2004/july/0713_wilson_plame_intel.shtml)
-Wilson misled the Washington Post in June of 2003, when he told the paper that the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." In fact, Wilson had never seen the reports.
When the Senate committee staff asked Wilson how he could have come to that conclusion, Wilson replied he may have “misspoken” (See first paragraph) to reporters.
(www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9)
-Contrary to Wilson’s claim’s that the Bush administration understood that it was knowingly passing along questionable information to the American public, the Senate committee found in its investigations that the CIA did not tell the White House it had its own doubts about an Iraq/Niger connection for the procuring of uranium.
Joseph Wilson has had extensive ties to the Democratic Party throughout much of his time in Washington. Wilson is an unabashed supporter and donor to the Kerry/Edwards campaign for the presidency. In 2000, he donated to Vice President Gore’s election, as has his wife, Valerie Plame. In the mid-eighties, Wilson worked for Gore as a congressional staffer. He has donated money to such liberal stalwarts as Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. He has in the recent past spoken to liberal “527” groups like Win Without War, which is a part of MoveOn.org, the premiere liberal hate group that is renowned for its coarse and hate-inspired political sloganeering.
WILSON, VALERIE E
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
N/A/RETIRED
10/11/2004
$372
America Coming Together
Bump for a felony.
Let me get this straight. Using a dummy corporation, Plame donated a grand to Gore? That can't be legal. What's Mark Levin's FReepname? We may have another buckhead moment here.
I have to believe that the law allows for CIA agents to use their front groups legally for all required references. For example, if she was getting a loan.
The question we keep coming back to is who first told someone that Valarie worked for the CIA. It is clear that her husband knew her real employment, and since he didn't have government clearance it seems that he shouldn't have had that information.
And we know that at some point, he publicly announced that she was a secret CIA operative, confirming that her cover had been "blown" by Novak's statement -- which was merely an opinion piece and had deniability of fact, until Wilson CONFIRMED it.
How did Rove know that Valarie worked on WMD issues at "the agency"? He wouldn't have had access to that information either, and he probably heard it around. Most stories that came out at the time of the "leak" said that everybody knew she worked at the CIA, but that nobody knew she was an operative.
Rove didn't say she was an operative, and it looks like he didn't know, so that would mean he couldn't have leaked that information.
It still seems to come back to Wilson verifying his wife's employment and secret operative status -- something he shouldn't have known, and shouldn't have confirmed. His wife shouldn't have told him (those with security clearances are not allowed to tell their spouses about secret things).