Wilson Admits Wife Not a 'Covert' Agent (CNN Interview transcript)

CNN | 7-14-05 | Wolf Blitzer

[The Old Hoosier]

While many news sources report it as fact, it is very unclear what Valerie Plame's status is/was. Here's the most important part of Wilson's interview from last night. In order to protect himself from criticism about the Vanity Fair photo shoot, the book deal, and his generally self-aggrandizing, self-enriching behavior since July 2003, Wilson admits that his wife was not a covert agent:

BLITZER: But the other argument that's been made against you is that you've sought to capitalize on this extravaganza, having that photo shoot with your wife, who was a clandestine officer of the CIA, and that you've tried to enrich yourself writing this book and all of that.

What do you make of those accusations, which are serious accusations, as you know, that have been leveled against you.

WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.

BLITZER: But she hadn't been a clandestine officer for some time before that?

WILSON: That's not anything that I can talk about. And, indeed, I'll go back to what I said earlier, the CIA believed that a possible crime had been committed, and that's why they referred it to the Justice Department.

She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in Vanity Fair appeared. And I have every right to have the American public know who I am and not to have myself defined by those who would write the sorts of things that are coming out, being spewed out of the mouths of the RNC...

[Grampa Dave]

What if he is looking at something else.

Like an illegal operation by two DNC Operatives Plame/Wilson to bring about an electronic coup against our president. An illegal operation funded by Plame's Boss, Foley, who suddenly retired when this started to hit the fan.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the heads up. I wondered about the date because the Yahoo search showed 2004.

[jonrick46]

Joe Wilson, you have had more than your 15 minutes of fame. Get off the stage!

[Howlin]

Spouse of outed CIA officer signs on with Kerry By Joseph Curl

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Saturday February 14, 2004; Front Page

"In May 2003, after his mission to Niger but before his July 6, 2003, Times op-ed piece, Mr. Wilson began working for Mr. Kerry as an unpaid adviser, offering foreign policy advice and speechwriting tips.

Mr. Wilson originally said reporters told him that White House political adviser Karl Rove told them his wife was "fair game," a statement he later retracted. In September, Mr. Kerry — who is making prewar intelligence a prime campaign issue said the disclosure of Mrs. Plame's name '...is more than another example of politics driving the Bush administration. ... A special counsel should be appointed immediately so that we can find out how George Bush let this happen and hold those responsible accountable.'"

---snip---

Mr. Wilson endorsed Mr. Kerry last fall, when the senator's campaign was flagging, but has recently made campaign appearances for him in Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Massachusetts and Washington state. Mr. Kerry has won four of those states and is expected to win the other two when primaries are held there later this year.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040214-120835-4661r.htm

[Howlin]

See 164.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks so Joe Wilson started whoring with Kerry in 2003.

[Howlin]

Right. After the SOTU, but before he wrote the Op-ED. Coincidence? I think not.

I keep wondering why he waited six months to dispute the SOTU.

[Grampa Dave]

Besides Miller protecting Plame/Wilson and probably Plame's last boss at the CIA. Miller is probably protecting Senator Chuckie and Kerry.

As you noted on another thread, Wilson started working for free for Kerry in 2003 shortly after his Niger trip.

[jonrick46]

So Joe and Valerie hatched up this scheme to undo President Bush's reelection in what I call a DemonRAT October surprise. Instead, it was an October Flop so fitting for the Flip Flop candidate Kerry.

[danamco]

So has anyone else noticed that this "scandal" has dropped off the radar faster than any scandal in history? AOL isn't even using it on their opening page, and Drudge has several debunking Wilson stories.


Timmy on "meet the press" made a big fuzz about it Sunday with the two leaches bernstein/woodward (multi millionaires) on their leak sources was trying to extract more milk out of that dead horse!!!

[danamco]

Now doesn't Schumer look like a fool now for appearing with him? Boxer is also an idiot. She said no fewer than 5 times that Rove outed a "covert" CIA Agent. The whole MSM and Rat's talking points was how Rove outed a "covert" CIA agent and that Wilson/Plame's life was ruined but then Liar Wilson contradicts them. I'm noting a very subtle tone today in the Rats, I wonder what gives?


Can't wait for Rush today sorting it all out to 20 million listeners!!!

[danamco]

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October 11, 2003

The Wall Street Journal has discovered that Brewster Jennings Associates, Valerie Plame's cover firm, was registered with Dun & Bradstreet in 1994, registered at a Boston address, 101 Arch St. as a legal services firm, that has no record of the firm being located there. Nor does the MAssachusetts Bar Association have any record of Victor Brewster, listed as a partner in Brewster Jennings in Dun & Bradstreet's business database.

Interestingly, Nicholas Kristof notes in his NYT column Saturday, "the C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994. So her undercover security was undermined at that time, and she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons."

Interesting the timing of the CIA's "creation" of the Brewster Jennings cover, in May 1994, just three months after Plame was apparently brought back to Washington by the CIA to protect her from potential exposure caused by Aldrich Ames' suspected leaking of her identity to the Russians.

So Plame's "non official cover" as an energy analyst with Brewster Jennings was not apparently used until 1994 -- because the firm didn't "exist" as a cover until 1994.

Amazing in this day and age, the CIA doesn't seem to provide more solid cover to its NOCs than the fabulist Stephen Glass did for his own faked articles.

The WSJ also has an amusing look at the possible inspiration for the name of the CIA cover firm, here.

[Dr.Hilarious]

I flip through the news channels when I eat dinner (after midnight) and it wasn't in any of the first segments of the local and national news shows I saw. Not one story about it, and I scanned the beginnings of four different news shows at least.

They will surely try to keep it on life support by coming up with "new developments" aka "leaks", which of course the news media are oh-so concerned about now. Yeah, since when?

I know a non-American who is astonished at this material. She can't believe how petty it is, and how so many Americans don't seem to understand how good they have it, and why they're tearing into Bush from every possible angle, when they should be worried about terrorists.

[tobyhill]

I wonder if the Grand Jury has thought of the probability that Cooper already knew of Plame because of his wife's, Grunwald, and Wilson's connection the the Democrat Party?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the WSJ documentation of this part of the Plame/Blame Game.

[Grampa Dave]

"I flip through the news channels when I eat dinner (after midnight) and it wasn't in any of the first segments of the local and national news shows I saw. Not one story about it, and I scanned the beginnings of four different news shows at least."

If this hold up today and becomes a trend, the Plame/Blame Game to get Karl Rove will fade away like the get DeLay, Rummy and countless other attempts to electronically smear GW.

[F.J. Mitchell]

It's on the radar okay, but not a storm, merely dopplar picking up ground clutter and kitty litter.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Looks can be decieving. Schumer was already a d@mn fool, by first grade.

[palmer]

So Plame's "non official cover" as an energy analyst with Brewster Jennings was not apparently used until 1994 -- because the firm didn't "exist" as a cover until 1994. Amazing in this day and age, the CIA doesn't seem to provide more solid cover to its NOCs than the fabulist Stephen Glass did for his own faked articles.

I've always thought that cover looked kind of useless mainly because it added no plausible deniability to someone using it. What was Plame supposed to say when asked who she worked for? A "secret" company? No, a cover company should look normal and this one looks to me like Plame did a basic D&B application herself without any other serious research or effort. This cover was allegedly verified by her boss but that would just prove that he's an idiot too.

[tobyhill]

The more I read this simple statute the more I understand where the Special Prosecutor is heading. Thank you for posting this because it does have a small statement that has to be answered before they target Wilson next,"at the time of the disclosure". He, SP, is probably trying to determine exactly when and who disclosed her identity because if it was within the 5 years, which it wasn't by this administration, there is a crime by them. Now Wilson committed a crime by disclosing her name in his bio in Who's Who in America because it was at the time within 5 years. Wilson's only defense could be that it was disclosed by someone before he put it in his bio.