Warning!! Wilson rant reply.
He had more than a layover (Itinerary, disappeared), as we know he had to fly through anyway... but he stayed for days. Who's in France at the embassy? 2nd wife Jacqueline... who is a friend of?... Giacomo, better known as Rocco Martino (Italy)... who is he? The (finder) of the forged Niger documents... which Joe commented upon with Nicholas Kristoff (article) and Pincus (article) and David Corn. They have all admitted Wilson was a source... what?... haven't heard that?... but you did know those columns came out before Novak's and his own NYT article?... you didn't? Geez. As of three days ago Kristoff backtracked stating "I don't know if Joe actually said he saw the forged documents but heard about them... maybe I misrepresented him"... Huh? But Nicky baby... you said Joe stated the signatures (hard to get that in a conversation), dates and names didn't match and those officials were no longer in office that's how he knew they were fake. Now Joey (who I am sure has many talents and rich boy hair), either has a photographic memory... nah, he never saw them right, or an amazing memory of this conversation with ? whomever told him about it... Funny, he keeps making mistakes on other statements. My point... by the way, the documents didn't come up until eight months later, yet he knew about them.
Never mind he accepted a post in 1999 which after a year he gave up to start his JW Investment Company who set up transactions between the French and where... guess...Niger.
Strange... he doesn't speak the dialect (forget it, a small thing), not to mention the company his office was housed in and he was listed as a consultant (he said he only had an office in the buiding, not an employee), is caught up in Oil for Food (ahhh, sure it's a coincidence).
Let's not forget he also worked for the Kerry Campaign for a few months and never made a statement against the war with this Niger info until way after it was started... why?
What was Joe's clearance? How could he come back and talk about this everywhere and not have given a written report (just oral at CIA debriefing), was this at the very least confidential?
Great post Ali!
Excellent!
That's just like the Ronco Made-For-TV ads ... "Wait there's more!"
Excellent. Thanks.