And now she's running for Congress.
Posted on 10/10/2019 7:10:24 AM PDT by Twotone
Joe Wilson had been fantasizing for over a decade and a half about the first sentence of his obituary:
Joseph C. Wilson IV, the Bush I administration political appointee who did the most damage to the Bush II administration.
By the time the Grim Reaper came calling, the Democrat-media industrial complex had moved on, to new whistleblowers, doing new damage to newer administrations. But he and his then wife, Valerie Plame, had a grand run for longer than might have been expected - and even parlayed their fifteen minutes into a movie deal: Fair Game, with Naomi Watts as Ms Plame and Sean Penn as Mr Wilson. Did you see it? Me neither. But I did follow Joe Wilson fairly closely at the height of his celebrity. It derived from sixteen words uttered by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union: The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
What followed will ring very familiar to those who've followed the news of recent days: a whistleblower, a rogue bureaucracy, Deep State shenanigans, and a media that reflexively takes the side of unelected officials over elected ones - at least when it's GOP types who get elected. And, as the Wilson affair revealed, yet again, the world's most lavishly funded "intelligence" agencies are little more than tourists in the heart of darkness. This is what I wrote in The Spectator on October 11th 2003 - back when Democrats were salivating, as is their wont, about that season's "Watergate":
Early last year, the Bush administration dispatched a career diplomat to Niger to check out whether there was anything to the rumours that Saddam was trying to buy uranium from Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I glanced over the article and I’m not going to waste my time deciphering it.
George Tenet - “slam dunk!”
And now she's running for Congress.
If all you knew about Wilson and yellowcake and Niger was what you read in the managed American press, you don’t know anything. Almost nothing Wilson said about it, and almost nothing you saw in the New York Times was true.
It bears a lot of resemblance in that sense to the current Russia!! and Ukraine!! stories.
Our return on investment for what we put into intelligence is shameful.
They really seem to be suffering don’t they?
Her outing has relegated her to the hard life of being one of the beautiful people and running for Congress. How do they bear it?
Oops
Bush was right...yellowcake.
Bush was/is a Useful Idiot and a Stooge.
Pentagon announces 500 tons of Uranium shipped from Iraq to Canada
500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says
Here’s the gist of the article: Wilson and Plame lied. Wilson did report to the CIA that Iraq was trying to get yellowcake from Africa.
Wilson was a career diplomat and to keep a job, any job, when Dubya got in office, he accepted a post as Ambassador to Ghana, which was, and is about as low a posting as you can get in the world. Ghana doesn’t even have a US embassy as it is too small and unstable, which is saying a lot for Africa, so he spent his time in a neighboring hell-hole.
Being close to DC, the chatter I heard was that if his efforts led directly to damage to Dubya, Wilson could expect a career move to France, the nirvana of a liberal diplomat. Not as a Ambassador, since he is not of the John Kerry tier, but that was good enough for him.
He gave it his best shot.
Gabon, not Ghana.
Thank you, mak5. I appreciate it.
“...and his then wife Valerie Plame...” Apparently, neither of the two could stand the other. Probably for good reason,
#11 That Yellow Cake was for making cupcakes for the Mounties....
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