Posted on 07/16/2005 8:20:46 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's cover?
It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.
Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:
He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.
Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.
Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.
I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.
However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair. (Or was it Vogue? No, probably too crass for Vogue, n'est pas?)
The MSM is very incurious about this. Once this is answered all we be clear.
1. Remember initial reports has Wilson going to Niger at the behest of Cheney.
2. Cheney denies it.
3. Rove tells reporters it was Wilson's wife who recommended him for the mission.
4. Wilson accuses Rove of outing his undercover wife knowing that the MSM and Dems will support him.
5. The MSM piles on with visions of Watergate dancing in their heads.
Wilson, Plame and a treasonous cabal within the CIA are the culprits. QED.
There's money involved. Big money. "Filthy" capitalism done via backdoor politics and to America's peril, and to the benefit of those taking "capitalism" to a selfish, extremist extreme. Fascism.
bttt
Hang her and her husband.
see 205!
I love and saved it!
Seeing them arrested for high crimes and misdemeanors is a delightful sight, no? But very costly in terms of this WOT. When the arrest for such begin happening, as I think they will, you will know that Freedom and Democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan is on its way in a big way.
Great post! Great article! Thanks.
ok, ya got me !
It will only get worse as their desperation reaches Everest heights. The prospect that Bush may appoint four justices is their greatest fear. They will do or say almost anything to prevent that from occurring with a free hand.
Oh, they are well aware of it just as CBS knew damn well the documents were complete forgeries that Rather relied upon to try and get Bush. They are shameless as my tag indicates.
Not really. He got to babysit April Gillespie's chair as a stand in for a bit when she was out of town.
The person who was higher up in authority than Plame was apparently Alan Foley, who has already resigned from his post.
P.S. I sent my account @ #201 on to FrontPageMagazine's David Horowitz, who wrote the cited column here, and who is a very good friend of both Victor Davis Hanson and of mine.
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