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(Clown) Wilson clarifies comment about wife's C-I-A role
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Posted on 07/15/2005 1:53:20 PM PDT by golfboy

WASHINGTON The husband of the C-I-A agent whose cover was blown is clearing up some confusion over a comment he made to C-N-N.

Joseph Wilson said yesterday that his wife, Valerie Plame, "was not a clandestine officer the day Bob Novak blew her identity."

Today, he says he was only pointing out that once her identity was blown, his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent. He says he wasn't suggesting that she had stopped working undercover for the C-I-A beforehand.

Wilson is continuing his attack on White House adviser Karl Rove, for discussing his wife with columnist Novak and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper. The discussion came just days after Wilson had written in The New York Times that some of the administration's intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons was twisted to exaggerate the threat.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cialeak; expathippieboy; ineedabookdeal; justkidding; notherethere; pantsonfire; rotteneggs; wasteofskin; whydontyoulikeme; wilsonwife
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To: swheats
The whole Rat party is one giant deer in the headlights, sweats.

btw, GOOD to see you............where have you been keeping yourself??

121 posted on 07/15/2005 2:33:53 PM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
MSM and the Rats never learn. Actaully I'll make the case they've been burned twice (o.k. in mid-burn, 2nd time) on the Plame game. Recall when the intial Novak piece same out, Bush / Ashcroft THEMSELVES started the prosecutor down this road just to keep the jackels at bay.

While that work isn't complete, 1) a Rat / Media type WILL be found to be the source. Why else would Ms. Miller subject herself to jail; FOR KARL ROVE? and 2) both, will look like fools, trying to hang this on Rove.

122 posted on 07/15/2005 2:34:24 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: Night Hides Not
How about a reprise with Sure Connningly in You Only LIE Twice? ROFLMAO
123 posted on 07/15/2005 2:34:46 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Is there a Cone of Silence big enough for all these freaks?


124 posted on 07/15/2005 2:35:29 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: lugsoul
The CIA did a referral for some reason. And Fitzgerald has taken two years with it for some reason. It would be odd if all that could've been avoided with a curt conclusion that she didn't fall within the statute.

It can easily take two years to try to figure out who said what to whom when everyone says they heard it from somebody else and nobody points to an ultimate source. That's what I think has gone on here. Everybody in Washington knew about Val and Joe, but nobody can remember exactly who told them and when, it was just cocktail party chatter for months. And it isn't necessary to prove Plame was covert, it is necessary to prove that anyone who leaked her name to the media THOUGHT she was covert and thought they were blowing her cover and did it anyway.

125 posted on 07/15/2005 2:35:39 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (If the WMD intelligence was so bad, why does Valerie Plame still have a job?)
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To: Mo1
Wilson and Valerie were Kerry supporters and contributers.
126 posted on 07/15/2005 2:35:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Darkwolf377

Blitzer also neglected to include any mention of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report or Lord Butler report that skewered Wilson for LYING about everything.


127 posted on 07/15/2005 2:35:57 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: samadams2000

LOL


128 posted on 07/15/2005 2:36:24 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! I am Oz, the great and powerful!"


129 posted on 07/15/2005 2:36:57 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (If the WMD intelligence was so bad, why does Valerie Plame still have a job?)
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To: WestTexasWend

Hope so...I'm starting to run out of tinfoil.


130 posted on 07/15/2005 2:37:34 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: ohioWfan

LOL and my senator's leading the parade.

I dusted off my superwoman cape and went back to work. I actually like it too.


131 posted on 07/15/2005 2:39:09 PM PDT by swheats
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To: Steven W.

Yup. But I guess lying about pre-war intel wasn't "scandalous" enough for Wolf.


132 posted on 07/15/2005 2:39:46 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Gabon?)
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To: The Electrician; lugsoul

Well parsed! Basically I had the same thoughts but you said it far better. In addition I would add that any spouse of any ambassador should be assumed to be a spook - especially if the ambassador is a career diplomat. Valerie Plame's career as a spy was done the day she became Mrs Wilson!


133 posted on 07/15/2005 2:40:07 PM PDT by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: nopardons
Wilson and Valerie were Kerry supporters and contributers.

Shocking!

I'm sure that when the Rove balloon pops that they will get right on that in the MSM!

LoL!

134 posted on 07/15/2005 2:40:43 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: golfboy

To assume Valerie Plame lost her ability to become a covert CIA agent assumes she had the ability to be a covert CIA agent ... which seems highly unlikely because of the high profile she kept over the years.


135 posted on 07/15/2005 2:41:14 PM PDT by Lunkhead_01
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To: bjc
I agree that the exchange was disjointed, but I was focusing on the 'clarified' statement - I put that in quotes because I kind of thought that was what he was saying yesterday. Wolf is asking him to respond to various allegations of 'wrongdoing' - trying to make book money, etc., and specifically mentions the 'photo shoot' with his 'clandestine officer' wife. In response, Wilson says she wasn't a 'clandestine officer' on the day Novak published. IF he is responding to the question, it reads to me like he is saying, "There was nothing wrong with doing that photo shoot because my wife wasn't clandestine - she'd already been outed by Novak." Then, when Wolf asks the follow-up, he declined to answer.

Now, clearly there was a point in the day - after the Trib hit the street? - when Plame was no longer clandestine. Her name was in the paper as a CIA 'operative'. The question that didn't get asked is whether she was clandestine on that day BEFORE Novak's column hit the street.

Of course, given web publishing, the column was probably available the night before or early that morning. ;-)

So, IF he was saying what is being construed here, i.e. "My wife was NO LONGER covert when Novak wrote his column," then he was not responding even a little bit to the question that was asked - you see my point? If he was saying, "She was covert any more because Novak published," he is responding, somewhat, to the question.

136 posted on 07/15/2005 2:41:39 PM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: ncpatriot
I have been listening to John Gibson.

LOL, he mentioned that the Dem's are upset with him for saying that Rove should get a metal.

A letter went out saying everyone should avoid appearing on his show.

He had a debate with Hutchinson and said to her, "I'll play the Democrat."

137 posted on 07/15/2005 2:42:35 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsch"....... "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: AliVeritas
I'm starting to run out of tinfoil.

Swell, fodder for the lib's to show a shortage of tin too. /s

138 posted on 07/15/2005 2:42:55 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: swheats
Well, good for you! You ARE missed though........

(But we don't pay you anything here, so you probably made a good choice. ;)

139 posted on 07/15/2005 2:43:44 PM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: golfboy
WASHINGTON The husband of the C-I-A agent whose cover was blown is clearing up some confusion over a comment he made to C-N-N

She never had her "cover blown" that the general public knows.

 

140 posted on 07/15/2005 2:43:55 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
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