Posted on 07/14/2006 7:50:16 AM PDT by PDR
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said Friday they decided to sue Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove because they engaged in a "whispering campaign" to destroy her career.
Plame told at a news conference she trusted the government to protect her and that the government "betrayed that trust. I'd much rather be continuing my career as a public servant than as a plaintiff in a lawsuit."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Why couldn't she stay in the Government?!
she doesn't 'xactly 'splain that....
Hey they promissed not to leak your street walking days, that's all!
Wilson lied again today in his press conference when he said that nothing he found in Niger supported the Bush administration's contention that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium.
Here we have the reason why the left pretended to be upset about the outting of a non-covert CIA employee; Wilson was lying to the American public that Bush lied and that served the Democrat's purpose. Never mind the fact that it is Wilson who lied:
The panel found that Wilson's report, "rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, actually bolstered the case for most intelligence analysis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9
To this day, British intelligence maintains that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Africa, recently underlined by a report from The Financial Times of London. The British government states "European intelligence officers have now revealed... human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger." The New York Times paraphrased the above with a clear-cut story titled: "Intelligence Backs Claim Iraq Tried to Buy Uranium." The essay leaves no doubt as to the claim of Bush in January 2003 that Saddam Hussein was not only was trying to procure uranium, but had been for years.
http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1087373295002.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Wilson misled the Washington Post in June 2003, when he told the paper that the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." In fact, Wilson had never seen the reports.
When the Senate committee staff asked Wilson how he could have come to that conclusion, Wilson replied that he may have "misspoken" (See first paragraph) to reporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39834-2004Jul9
I wish we could all e-mail Simon and Schuster and let them know they are buying the words of a proven liar.
They wouldn't be pleased to know that the Senate Bipartisan Intelligence Committee determined that what Joe Wilson discovered in Niger actually bolstered the Bush administration's position that Iraq was trying to purchase yellowcake. Wilson told the Congress in closed session one thing and then left those meetings and lied to the American public.
Lots of links to that and more here:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fiore/050717
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21844942
And let's hope that Tony Snow is aware of those links and can counter the inevitable questions about this matter at the next press conference
These are just two out of many people who said that Wilson outed his own wife in the Fox Green Room in 2002: Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely and Lt. General Tom McInerney
And then there is the matter of the bios. Wilson published the NYT editorial stating that he had a project with the CIA (that focused on her particular area of expertise) which was in itself a significant risk to his wife's supposed cover because at least 3 of Wilson's bios on the internet listed Valerie Plame by name as his wife. One of those bios, dated 2002 can be found here.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47242
http://www.redstate.com/story/2005/11/6/235210/851
http://web.archive.org/web/20030720060539/http://www.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html
I love it when "progressives" lecture us on the subject of betrayal.
Why'd she have her name published in Who's Who ?
The MSM signed an amicus brief:
36 major news organizations and professional reporters' groups (including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The New York Press Club and The White House Corespondents) insisted that "no crime" had been committed in the "Plame Leak" case because, among other things, Valerie Plame's identity had previously been disclosed to both the Russians and the Cubans!
Read their brief here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665581/posts?page=12#12
And does anyone have a list of the Dem pols that one or both of the Wilsons met with before announcing the lawsuit?
I hope this goes to trial and some scrupled attorney grills Joe Wilson like a July 4th Hot Dog.
......Then when VPlame takes the stand, she's exposed as a media whore.
I don't have that list, but someone around here will have it.
Again.
lol..if the defendants are lucky..wilson/plame would have larry klayman of judicial watch as their attorney..that way they would know their case will NEVER make it to court..
"I hope this goes to trial and some scrupled attorney grills Joe Wilson like a July 4th Hot Dog"
Speaking of a 4th of July Hot Dogs...The Wilson's had a 4th of July media open house a week before the Novak story hit. Poor trade craft for a superspook I would say.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0706-05.htm
"While his family prepared for a Fourth of July dinner, he proudly showed a reporter photos of himself with Bush's parents. On a den wall was a framed cable to him in Baghdad, from the first President Bush, dated Nov. 20, 1990:"
It works both ways. The taxpayers should sue these two wannabes for lying about and distracting the government from it's duties. Never mind her own husband outed her - if there was really anything to out. What's pitiful is her entire achievements listed on Who's Who is "became the subject of a widespread government controversy when members of the Bush administration were accused of leaking her identity as an undercover CIA agent to members of the media; filed lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in 2006." If that's it for her, then what a sorry pathetic life.
Marking for future use.
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