Why was Joe Wilson sent on a very sensitive mission by CIA?
No wonder our intel is so faulty!
On April 3, 1998, Plame became the third wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Plame met Wilson, her second husband, at a Washington D.C party in early 1997. She was able to reveal her CIA role to him while they were dating because he held a high-level security clearance. At the time, Wilson was separated from his second wife Jacqueline, a former French diplomat.(!)
I don't know why the Wilsons' political leanings are a surprise. It came out a while ago that Joseph Wilson functioned as President Clinton's political advance man for Clinton's (highly political) tour of Africa, the one in which he apologized all over the place for America to African presidents-for-life who were laughing up their sleeves at him. But of course, Clinton was under investigation by Ken Starr, and if he were indicted would be tried in a D.C. court, with a D.C. jury........
"Bobby, can you spell 'jury nullification'"?
So Wilson was used for that, which means he had Clinton's confidence and was, and is, a bona fide Clintonista.
Why either he or his wife were still working for George Bush more than two days after the first inaugural ball is a question for Bush's political staffers and whoever vetted the holdovers to answer. IMHO the Wilsons are a couple of Clinton political moles, the political equivalent of suicide-bomber sleeper agents that Clinton activated for the Iraq War and Campaign 2004.
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