Posted on 07/23/2005 8:53:56 AM PDT by YaYa123
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed Friday that two years ago he discussed the blown cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame with then CIA director George Tenet and that Tenet "was furious." Tenet promptly called the Justice Department to demand an investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak, Schumer said at a hearing held by House and Senate Democrats.
Novak revealed Plame's identity in July 2003 in a column in which he said she played a key role in having her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sent to Niger to investigate reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had tried to buy materials for a nuclear weapon there.
The Democratic panel heard from five former CIA operatives who said the disclosure of Plame's classified identity was a breach of the law that forbids government officials from revealing the identity of an undercover intelligence officer and a violation of trust that has harmed America's intelligence-gathering capabilities.
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USA Today had this to say in its December 18, 1990 article about Wilson:
For Wilson, the dream assignment would be France. He grew up in Paris, his wife, Jacqueline, is French, and he owns a vacation home near the Riviera town of Hyeres.
EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMITTEE -- (Senate - July 02, 1992)
[Page: S9774]
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The following executive reports of committee were submitted:d
By Mr. PELL, from the Committee on Foreign Relations:
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Joseph Charles Wilson IV, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Gabonese Republic, and to serve concurrently without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.
Contributions are to be reported for the period beginning on the first day of the fourth calendar year preceding the calendar year of the nomination nad ending on the date of the nomination.
Nominee: Joseph Charles Wilson IV.
Post: Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe.
Contributions, amount, date, donee:
1. Self, Joseph C. Wilson IV, none.
2. Spouse, Jacqueline G. Wilson, none.
3. Children and Spouses, Joseph C. Wilson V., Sabrina C. Wilson, none.
4. Parents, Phyllis Finnell Wilson none, Joseph C. Wilson III (deceased).
5. Grandparents, Joseph C. Wilson Jr., Mary McKee Wilson (deceased). Phillip Finnell and wife (deceased).
6. Brothers and Spouses, William Ralph Wilson, none.
I think we have to assume Schumer is lying whenever he's hooked up to a microphone and slithers in front of a camera.
...the disenfranchised and their little command post.
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