Posted on 07/17/2007 10:17:45 AM PDT by Utah Girl
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson signed on with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign yesterday, saying "it's entirely possible" his ex-spy wife will hit the trail with her, too.
Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as a covert CIA operations officer by President Bush's advisers in 2003 as they sought to discredit her Iraq war critic husband. She's writing a memoir due in the fall.
"I would expect her to be engaged [politically] probably after the book tour," Wilson told the Daily News after Clinton announced his endorsement.
Wilson said his wife shunned politics during her two decades as a covert spy. But now that she's retired, "I don't think you'll find her politics are much different than mine," Wilson said from his home in Santa Fe, N.M.
At a House hearing after Vice President Cheney's top aide Lewis (Scooter) Libby was convicted of perjury in the leak probe, Plame said she was a Democrat. The couple recently dined with one of Washington's most notable moderates, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, who urged her to run for office as a centrist, sources said.
Clinton praised Wilson's endorsement because he "stood up to this administration" by challenging Bush's reasons for invading Iraq.
"I'm so pleased that we share the goal of ending this war so that we can begin bringing our troops home safely," she said.
Wilson said Clinton had reached out to the couple in their "darkest hours."
"I want somebody who's going to fight for me," he said.
Co-Cabalist working for other co-cablist.
That sounds like a serious crime. I hope they appoint a special prosecutor and find out who did that and send them to jail.....
Congressman Billybob
Funny, I wonder if they really want him. Even parts of the MSM have realized he’s a POS.
But when he was on Wolf Blitzer's show, Joe Wilson said Miss Natasha Plame was NOT a covert officer "the day Bob Novak blew her identity."
Except for sending hubby and a 'fact-finding' mission to discredit the President... and except that she wasn't covert... and except that she lied about it to congress...
20 years and out with full retirement benefits- ya gotta love a government job.
I want ALL of them in Washington to GO AWAY!!!
Isn't this pretty much an admission of guilt in their conspiracy against the current administration.
What I don’t understand is why endorse Hillary? Who plans on keeping troops in Iraq.
Why not endorse a candidate that is truly against the war there, and wants to withdraw?
Maybe it’s not really about Iraq for Wilson?
Wow! What a surprise! This totally blindsided me!
Mr Plame got a job! Finally!
His family and friends are so happy!
Why, its the first one he’s had since Clinton was President!
(chuckle)
James Gordon Meek
Previously, Meek worked for United Press International, APBnews.com and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Meek also has broken a series of stories about abuses of inmates at the U.S. terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (ALL LIES!)
A “covert agent” who was donating thousands of $ to democrats long before her POS husband went to Niger. A “covert agent” who was a shill for John Kerry in ‘04. I understand the MSM being in the pockets of the democrats, but don’t they even do a tiny bit of background before they start lionizing obvious partisan hacks?
TWO liars!!!
And Scooter Libby is sentenced to jail for 30 months. What is this nation coming to???
Both Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame will be used for their propaganda value by the Clintons.
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