Was it really a secret that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA? (AWESOME Dirt On Joe Wilson!)

National Review ^ | September 29, 2003 | Clifford D. May

[mattdono]

Ok, you guilted me...I sent it to Hannity. The email that I had for him was seanshow@abc.com

If this isn't right, someone let me know.

[MissouriForBush]

For those of us Americans who have lived overseas in recent years, it is all too obvious how many Clinton leftovers/loyalists are still on the payrolls at US consulates and embassies abroad.

The Bush administration needs to clean house at the State Dept. with the help of some rat-catching pest-control experts.

[mewzilla]

Thanks for posting that. I called called away from my FRED (computer:) I see Chuckie cancelled his presser...

[maica]

Because Novak never said administration officials gave him that info.


7777

Sean Hannity just read a comment from Novak, issued today, that he got the info on wilson's wife, from a CIA official, NOT from anyone at the White House.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

It is legal for a State Department person to be married to a spook. Sounds like a conflict to me.
Count on C-Span to provide a mike for any anti-Bush ranters.
The MORNING JOURNAL couldn't be worse if it were paid for by the DNC. . . they certainly are allowed to provide all the responses. Hate Bush line is straightforward while the
like Bush line starts with but I used to like Bush and then the same rant.

[Stultis]

Greg Knapp, Talk Radio, KLIF 570 AM, Dallas/Ft Worth, TX

Greg will be covering the Wilson/Yellowcake/Whitehouse "Leak" issue in the next hour (5:05pm CST). Greg and his staff always do excellent research, and Greg is as sharp as a tack. Must listen. Oline here:

http://www.streamaudio.com/listen?station=KLIF_AM

[cyncooper]

Mr. Wilson is now saying (on C-SPAN this morning, for example) that he opposed military action in Iraq because he didn't believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and he foresaw the possibility of a difficult occupation. In fact, prior to the U.S. invasion, Mr. Wilson told ABC's Dave Marash that if American troops were sent into Iraq, Saddam might "use a biological weapon in a battle that we might have. For example, if we're taking Baghdad or we're trying to take, in ground-to-ground, hand-to-hand combat."

In additon to Wilson's comments to ABC's Maresh, he spoke with Bill Moyers in February 2003 (after SOTU speech, but no comment from Wilson about any quarrel he had with President Bush's uranium refererence):

In Depth — Transcript, February 28, 2003, Bill Moyers talks with Joseph C. Wilson, IV

EXCERPT:

MOYERS: President Bush's recent speech to the American Enterprise Institute, he said, let me quote it to you. "The danger posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons cannot be ignored or wished away." You agree with that?

WILSON: I agree with that. Sure. I...

MOYERS: "The danger must be confronted." You agree with that? "We would hope that the Iraqi regime will meet the demands of the United Nations and disarm fully and peacefully. If it does not, we are prepared to disarm Iraq by force. Either way, this danger will be removed. The safety of the American people depends on ending this direct and growing threat." You agree with that?

WILSON: I agree with that. Sure. The President goes on to say in that speech as he did in the State of the Union Address is we will liberate Iraq from a brutal dictator. All of which is true.

[cyncooper]

Why is Novak getting the kid glove treatment?

NOVAK: 'NOBODY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CALLED ME TO LEAK THIS'

Excerpt:

According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of an undercover operatives...

[CyberAnt]

Absolutely!! And .. I hope the WH admin will follow through and fire them!!

[cyncooper]

Whoever revealed this classified information on which lives depended

Why are you buying the Wilson/lib line that this was classified information on which lives depended?

First, the very first part of the article this thread is based on says:

It's the top story in the Washington Post this morning as well as in many other media outlets. Who leaked the fact that the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA?

What also might be worth asking: "Who didn't know?"

And, as I just posted a link to Novak's latest comments, Plame was not a spy, under-cover or any of that. She was an analyst.

[maica]

You have such great data, I think I will just click on 'seamole' when I open FR. It will save me a lot of time just to read what you are presenting.

[mewzilla]

Here's an interesting Beeb link. Apparently the CIA source was popping off to the Beeb last July.

[claudiustg]

http://www.instadv.ucsb.edu/93106/2003/January21/calendar.html

"Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson speaks on "Iraq: Disarmament or Conquest? The Case against Regime Change" in a free lecture. "

He was speaking against the war on Jan 22, 2003