Posted on 11/04/2005 7:44:45 AM PST by shhrubbery!
Paul Vallely, on air last night on the John Batchelor show, said he met Joe Wilson in 2002 in the "green room" of a cable network's studio.
Both Vallely and Wilson were waiting to go on air. Wilson, at that time, was packaging himself as an expert on Iraq.
Vallely said that since he and Wilson found they had some acquaintances in common, they began talking. In the course of the conversation, Wilson told Vallely that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
This conversation, Vallely said, took place in 2002, several months before Plame's alleged "outing" at the hands of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, via Robert Novak's column published July 14, 2003.
Vallely also said that his impression of Joe Wilson, at that time, was that Wilson was a "self-promoter" who was making the rounds of the news programs, likely in advance of publishing a book.
[Note: Vallely's link on the John Batchelor Show website (scroll down to "Paul Vallely" under heading "Current Intelligence") does not carry this report, at least not yet. Link at this time goes to Joe Wilson: Lying About Iraqi Uranium.]
Anti-war is also PC.
When you say I am correct, I hope you are not implying that I am politically correct.
Andrea Mitchell should stop her charades and tell us whether or not she knew (as she first claimed) that Joe Wilson's wife working at CIA was not a secret in Washington. She has an opportunity almost everyday to clear this up on Chris Matthews.
According to Joe Wilson neither he nor his wife have been under oath in front of the GJ (which is amazing to me). He also said that they haven't spoken to Fitzgerald in over a year and a half. Fitzgerald never interviewed his neighbors on whether they knew Plame was working for CIA until the night before the Libby indictment according Byron York who interviewed them.
One of Libby's defense attorneys...
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Ted Wells is definitely something. In the 1960s he was a star lineman at Northwest DC's Coolidge High School. Two colleges got into a dispute over where he would play: Wells believed he had agreed to play at Pitt. Then he got a call from Holy Cross board member Edward Bennett Williams telling him to report to Holy Cross and that he, Williams, would deal with Pitt. Wells knew then and there that he wanted to be a lawyer. Williams became his mentor.
As a litigator, Wells does not rest until he gets the outcome he wants. In court he is assertive, quick on his feet, and convincing. Torricelli seemed headed for indictment until Wells was brought into the case. In a matter of months, Wells convinced prosecutors to drop their investigation into Torricelli's campaign finances.
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OK. Thanks for the correction.
Seems silly to allow witnesses to speak when everybody else is gagged...
The John Batchelor Show always end with Midnight, the Stars and You followed by God Bless america. John's last comment is here Comes Kate. IMOHO I find this show to be the most intense.
. . .sounds great. . .will try and 'find it'. . .
What was he doing for 2 years? He certainly wasn't investigating the leak.
Think his 'story' was given a new interpretation when he became a 'Kerry for President' enthusiast. . .
Thanx for alerting me to the newest wnd article, shhrubbery!
All: Lots of great info at this link:
http://fatsteve.blogspot.com/2005/07/linkfest-plamewilson-spins_112148930159092049.html
Exactly. We've figured out Lyin' Joe. We have his number here.
Nonetheless, it must be extremely unpleasant to receive a threat from Wilson's lawyer.
Even if you know you're 100% right, having to hire your own lawyer and spend mucho $$$ preparing to defend yourself --even if the threatened lawsuit never materializes-- is no picnic.
I'll bet John Batchelor was a recipient of a letter from Wilson's lawyer, too, if WND was.
The normally ebullient Batchelor seemed oddly subdued on his Friday night show (the night after Vallely revealed Wilson's green room braggadocio on Batchelor's show).
Linkfest: Plame/Wilson Spins Out of Control
The MSM spun the Plame story along, but it's falling apart on them.
- The background of the story appears to be a dispute concerning whether Saddam should have been removed from power, with the CIA, and the State Dept. in the 'keep Saddam' camp.
- Around the beginning of 2002, Vice-President Cheney heard that Iraq was trying to acquire Uranium, and asked the CIA what they knew about it.
- The CIA wasn't sure about this, and told Cheney so. Cheney dropped the matter, but on its own initiative, the CIA decided to send former ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger to check into things.
- In February, 2002, Wilson went to Africa, and reported that a Niger official thought Iraq had tried to acquire uranium.
- Wilson also reported his judgment that Iraq failed to get the uranium. His reasons weren't very persuasive, in my arrogant opinion.
- Wilson, a Lefty Democrat, and a former Foreign Service officer married to CIA employee Valerie Plame, was very much against removing Saddam from power, from the Gulf War till 2003.
- Wilson and Plame seem to have been convinced the 'Iraq tried to buy Niger Uranium' reports were wrong .
- By September 2002, the British government was convinced that
Saddam has been trying to buy significant quantities of uranium from Africa, though we do not know whether he has been successful.
- On October 1st, 2002, a National Intelligence Estimate was issued saying that Saddam had sought African Uranium. This represented the CIA's official position at the time.
- In January 2003, Bush's State of the Union message said "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
- When we invaded Iraq and didn't find the WMDs that Wilson believed Saddam had, he started talking to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, and someone at The Washington Post. Wilson told them the pre-war intelligence had been distorted.
- On July 6, 2003, Wilson published his infamously dishonest Times op-ed.
- The MSM proved it can't read, by failing to notice Wilson's artful sliding from 'Iraq didn't buy Niger uranium' to 'Iraq didn't attempt to buy Niger uranium.'
- After Wilson's op-ed, reporters called Rove and Libby, asking about Wilson.
- Apparently, the reporters told Rove and Libby that Plame was CIA.
- Most reporters didn't write anything about this, but Robert Novak revealed that Wilson's wife was CIA.
- The MSM then lied in their teeth, claiming that the White House had called reporters seeking to out Plame.
- These stories have now collapsed.
- The information Wilson gave for the two Kristof stories and the Post stories was at best wrong, at worst a lie.
- Wilson's report strengthened the case that Iraq sought uranium.
- Inquiries in Britain and the U.S. say the intelligence was well-founded, and the CIA still won't say Iraq didn't try to buy uranium.
- The Administration did not distort intelligence, or pressure the CIA.
- The MSM continues, its spin and bias, trying to claim Rove or someone, was attacking Plame, but all the available evidence is precisely the opposite.
- And despite claims that Plame was a covert officer, the evidence is that people all over Washington knew that Plame was working for the CIA.
[Again, credit and kudos for the summary/links above goes to Fat Steve's Blatherings.]
What a twinkie.
He was just on with Hannity and was great. He said he'll testify under oath. Also, sending copies of emails to Hannity he recieved from Wilsons lawyer that had previous correspondence between Wilson and his lawyer about whether he should sue the General or not... LOL.
It shouldn't be too hard for someone with subpoena power to determine if these guys were ever scheduled to appear on a network such that they would wind up in the same green room. It isn't like Wilson was 'all over' TV at that time - how many appearances could there be?
Well, I just heard Vallely on Sean Hannity's radio show and he didn't sound anything but confident and was NOT subdued. As a matter of fact, he told Sean that he knows of at least one person at FOX, whom Joe had told that his wifey # 3 was at the CIA.
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