Posted on 08/25/2005 10:25:49 AM PDT by vrwc1
WASHINGTON — Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Wilson's accusations were based on an investigation he undertook for the CIA. But he was seen inside the White House as a "showboater" whose stature didn't warrant a high-level administration response. "Let him spout off solo on a holiday weekend," one White House official recalled saying. "Few will listen."
In fact, millions were riveted that Sunday as Wilson — on NBC's "Meet the Press" and in the pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post — accused the administration of ignoring intelligence that didn't support its rationale for war.
Underestimating the impact of Wilson's allegations was one in a series of misjudgments by White House officials.
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Didn't these two get their DNC talking points? This is old stuff, now. They can't touch Rove with it, so it's time for sympathetic media outlets to cut their losses. It's Cindy Sheehan they are supposed to be focusing on. ;)
Cindy must not be polling as well..bring out Joe Wilson!
No doubt quite a bit of the investigation has involved finding out how much Wilson has revealed concerning her, and how much his friends know.
This plea of ignorance by the LA Times will not get them off the special prosecutor's hook.
now if Chrysler doubled their "employee discount" I'd buy a dakota.
Wilson lied, Dems cried ...
Seriously, didn't the Senate Intel report and the British Butler report expose Wilson as a liar?
It's plain what went on here; a Democrat hack (Wilson) and his CIA clerk wife got together and were able to arrange this trip for the sole purpose of trying to damage the President during an election year.
It's frightening that we have CIA employees getting involved in politics. For the sake of national security, this is one group that should not be political...yet here is this slob and his skank wife doing harm to our country by playing this game.
The "Aw Jeez" guy would be really appropriate here!
Yep, the Cindy thingy is running out of gas and now it's back to the Plame/Rove/Wilson/nonsense thingy.
Looks like Sheehan's 15 minutes are up. The socialist media is back on this pipe dream.
Might as well read something about the Civil War: Both are Ancient History
Sheehan?
Who's that?
LOL!
also news accounts from the la times states that water is definitely wet
Vietnam. . . .Watergate. . . .Vietnam. . . .Watergate. . . .Vietnam. . . .Watergate. . . .Some Please. . . .Change the Record. . .Its. . .Broken. . . .
I made the poor choice of too reading much of this exceedingly long screed.
What a steamin' pile.
Whatever the LA Slimes wanted to propagandize, they refused to discuss why Judith Miller in jail for, protecting Karl Rove!!! What a joke.
Apparently, the DU needed something new to post. Cindy Sheehan was getting boring };-)
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