In July Time Magazine Interview, Joe Wilson Said His Wife Had Nothing To Do With Niger Trip

Time Magazine ^ | Thursday, Jul. 17, 2003 | By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON

[Blood of Tyrants]

From everything I have heard, the fact that his wife worked for the CIA was one of the worst kept secrets in DC.

[Pubbie]

Jumpin Joe is digging quite a hole for himself, his story is changing every day.

It should be quite easy for the Bush administration to nuke this story, but they will have to drop the New Tone nonsense and fight back.

[Pubbie]

Thanks.

[Mo1]

As far as I know, there is no story .. well except for Wilson going to all the media channels accusing people and then when he's called on it .. he changes his story.

[My2Cents]

a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

So, it sounds like she's an analyst, not an operative or an undercover operative. As discussed last night on Britt Hume's "Report," "outing" an analyst is not a crime, as the Dems were implying yesterday.

These people are evil.

[My2Cents]

She probably blabbed it all over town.

[Timesink]

An interesting thing to print back in July...

They would not have said "some government officials" if it had been anyone in the White House that "leaked" her job title; they would have said "some White House officials." (And I use the term "leaked" quite loosely, since it appears that half of Washington has always known who Wilson's wife was and what her job was.)

There's just nothing here, except for the usual crap right out of the dog-eared DNC Playbook.

[William McKinley]

Wait a sec...

So this was in the July 17th edition of Time?

Is that what you are telling me?

[Sacajaweau]

Thank you. I think this Wilson thing is just a diversion and being rotten curious, I found that:

Hugh Rodham was paid for helping some bad dudes get their presidential pardons from Clinton. Rodham got an attorney when it got out: "Nancy Lugue"

Al Arian, the dude that was arrested in Boston is tied to Al Alwani and his attorney is Nancy Lugue.

[Pubbie]

"Thursday, Jul. 17, 2003 | By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON"

Novak published his article on July 14th.

[William McKinley]

But you didn't answer my question- was this in the July 17th edition of Time Magazine?

[halfdome]

How do we now know his wife had everything to do with him being sent to Niger? I missed this. Thanks.

[Pubbie]

July 17 was the day this story was published on the internet.

I don't know about when the issue of Time had this story though I'll bet that this story was written at least a few days before Novak's July 14th report.

[Pubbie]

Yesterday on CNN's "Crossfire," of which he is a co-host, Novak had this to say:

Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July, I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington, I do not reveal confidential sources.

When I called the CIA in July, they confirmed Mrs. Wilson's involvement in a mission for her husband on a secondary basis, who is--he is a former Clinton administration official. They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative, and not in charge of undercover operatives.

[Mo1]

So this was in the July 17th edition of Time?

Edition?? .. I don't know

The time article is dated the 17th ..

also in the article it states they had an interview with Wilson .. but it doesn't exactly say when it was

[MizSterious]

Interesting, if this was the newsstand edition of Time. It would seem that either Novak shared his column with them before publishing it, or else Mrs. Wilson's occupation was not "outed" by Novak at all--but was in fact something more akin to "common knowledge."

[William McKinley]

Gotta find out if it was in the July 21st edition (or even the July 14th), and not the July 28th.

I think it might have been in the July 21st edition.

Today is September 30th. On sale right now is the October 6th edition. In other words, they go on sale about 6 days before the date of the issue. So if it is in the July 21st edition (and the cover of that edition makes it seem likely- that is where they had all of the Yellowcakegate stuff, then that means it was in the newsracks by July 15th.

Which would mean that there was no way they could have gotten it from Novak's piece. The deadline for inclusion would have passed.

[My2Cents]

Novak: "Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative, and not in charge of undercover operatives."

So, is anyone going to call Nancy Pelosi on her sanctimonious rant about how despicable it is to "out" an "undercover agent," which has been all over NPR this afternoon?

[Neets]

See here

[HardStarboard]

>>>These people are evil.<<<
>>>She probably blabbed it all over town.>>>

Democrats, by definition, are security risks!

They rarely talk with their thinking caps on - they talk to enhance their importance to whomever happens to be listening.