Posted on 10/26/2005 10:32:11 AM PDT by smoothsailing
This is an excellent summary.
I thought everyone knew this and the fact that Wilson lied about what so many people knew only points to the fact that Wilson isn't half as smart as he thinks he is.
It is called "nuance."
It doesn't matter that Wilson is a liar and his wife conspired with the DNC against the President.
What matters is someone forgot tell tell the GJ something that happened over two years ago.
However, the same people want to elect a person that forgot where the FBI files, how she made 100,000 dollars from a 1,000 dollar investment, where the records from the Rose Law Firm went, yet can vividly remember everything in her life that helped her wrte a book.
Exactly, he thought with the old media and the rogue CIA elements running cover for him, he could do and say whatever he pleased.
His head is still in the 1960's where he most likely would have pulled this off. This,IMO, is the blind spot the American Left is just now coming to grips with.
Ping...
Perhaps Fitzy needs to read this...no harm, no foul, IMHO.
mark for later
ping
Not sure they are there yet.
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I like this factoid:
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It is clear that a greater geo-political game has been afoot for some time. The fact that France had paid to have the Niger documents forged to embarrass the Bush administration is only part of the deception. The other aspect of this operation is that the CIA and ISG deliberately ignored or downplayed information provided by British intelligence and documents found in Iraq indicating that an Iraq-Africa uranium connection was a logical and reasonable conclusion, and that connection most likely involved the Congo.
On would think that by now, the rogue agents would have realized that their attempt to slam the President on pre-war intelligence has been undone by their own post-war audit trail. The media will, naturally, wait for historians to correct the record.
Yes, and they (MSM & Dems) all hope we've forgotten all those quotes of theirs about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" up until Bush took office!!! That's an even more Hugh and Series blind spot IMO.
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Where and when?
Joseph A. Wilson consistently told reporters heÂ’d seen the forged documents from Niger and noted that the names and dates on them were wrong and therefore he knew they were inauthentic. He testified in the same vein to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). When the Committee noted that we had not received those documents until eight months after his Mission, Wilson changed his testimony. As the members who filed an Additional Views Report observed, that statement made under oath was also at odds with the facts. From the Additional Views report of the SSCI:
It would thus appear that he did have access to the names and dates in the CIA reports, which means either (a) he had unauthorized access to classified CIA documents, received 8 months after his Mission or (b) he saw them before the CIA did. Peter Fitzgerald, call your office. Clarice Feldman 10 26 05p> |
See just above.
It could be as you say, or it could be they are there and are bound to ignore it.
They only have the one old dog-eared playbook, and to discard it would be their warped version of blasphemy.
They both do a good job of documenting and referencing their work.
Got it on my Watchlist.
All true, but don't overlook the appeal Wilson has to the Washington media and the anti-war crowd. Also the fact that he managed to ingratiate himself with the Kerry campaign.
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