Accusations obscure facts in leak - Scandal around Karl Rove, Joseph Wilson, and who said what

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 17, 2005 | MICHAEL HEDGES and BENNETT ROTH

[Echo Talon]

President Bush unwittingly touched off the controversy during his State of the Union address in January 2003, when, in making the case for war with Iraq, he said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Those 16 words became the target of a New York Times op-ed piece in July of that year, after the United States had invaded Iraq, written by an obscure career foreign service officer named Joseph Wilson who had worked for both Bush's father and President Clinton.

Since when does Joe Wilson speak for the British Government?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Since when did the msm honestly report facts?

[balch3]

Left wing claptrap from the Comical.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This "story" is hanging on by it's fingernails.

It must just kill the msm to include Joe Wilson as an ingredient in their Bush/Rove roast.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

it's


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[balch3]

It pains me to think that Former President and Mrs Bush have to see this garbage in their hometown newspaper.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Politics is a dirty game.

I'm sure they're quite used to it by now.

[Echo Talon]

It pains me to think that Former President and Mrs Bush have to see this garbage in their hometown newspaper.

I read the WHOLE thing... looks just like a reprint of the last week. I didn't notice any outright errors.

[jimboster]

This is a pretty straight forward presenation of the facts.

[Echo Talon]

Since when did the msm honestly report facts?

touche... :D
this article was about right, if someone found an error let me know I didn't notice it.
NOT talking about style just facts

[Echo Talon]

This is a pretty straight forward presenation of the facts.

Thats what I thought looked about right to me.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's the tone, the title and the omissions.

Let's hear how the reporters called Rove. Have them report that toward the end of a conversation about other things, THEY (msm) asked about Wilson and his wife.

The title, the tone and the clarity of facts would be much different if the political parties were switched

[Echo Talon]

OH!!! I do agree, This is not a be all end all LIST of facts... Sort of a cherry picked deal. Also I feel that last line is reaching a bit, BUT to be fair we really have no idea what Rove said to the Grand Jury 3 times... perjury is a tricky thing. Kind of a gotcha thing.
But the facts even if not the entire story, are correct and not an out and out lie that I'm used to reading in the MSM! maybe thats why I was so surprised! :D

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Today's Houston Chronicle political cartoon.

"Karl Rove is leaking"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder who New York Times reporter Judith Miller's source is - perhaps Ms. Plame herself?

[Howlin]

written by an obscure career foreign service officer named Joseph Wilson who had worked for both Bush's father and President Clinton.

Oh, he won't like that at all!

[Howlin]

That's a good guess, since "Natasha" worked on WMD at the CIA and that's what Miller wrote about.

[Echo Talon]

yea i'd like to know that too.

[Echo Talon]

Oh, he won't like that at all!

Joseph C. Wilson IV (born November 6, 1949) was a United States career foreign service officer and later a diplomat between 1976 and 1998. He served as ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe under President George H. W. Bush

He might not like it but it appears to be true...