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

[William McKinley]

I see. But that doesn't say what edition it was in of the magazine. I also see that the date there goes back to July 16th now. Still right around the time of Novak's piece, but still not the date of any of their magazines. The dates for the magazine editions were July 14th, 21st, and 28th.

The 21st is the edition they focused on Yellocake.

If it was in either the 14th or 21st edition, then they did not get it from Novak.

[Mo1]

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

I guess we could hit the doctor offices to find it

Seriously, I don't get Time and not sure how to find a copy

[mass55th]

"The CIA says he never filed a report, that's why Cheney never heard about Wilson's trip"

Wilson also claims he never wrote anything down about his interviews, etc., while in Niger. How do you conduct an investigation for a Federal Agency and get away with not filing an official report? It makes me wonder what he actually found out over there. Maybe he heard some things he didn't like...meaning it would back up Bush's statements. Being a Clintonista, he figured he'd cover it all up by claiming that he didn't take notes or file a report because there was nothing of importance to be found. Wouldn't you think that someone sent on such an important mission as trying to ascertain whether Saddam had attempted to buy uranium in Niger, would be required to turn over all his notes and file an official report, no matter what your investigation turned up? This stinks to high heavens.

[Pubbie]

Anywhere you can buy old July 2003 editions of Time?

This deserves more investigation.

[William McKinley]

My library is temporarily closed. Otherwise that would be where to go.

Someone want to hit their local library?

[William McKinley]

No need to buy. Any public library will likely have access.

[Mo1]

Anywhere you can buy old July 2003 editions of Time?

Send out a freeper alert to see if anyone has a copy?

[Mo1]

*L* .. goes to show you how many times I go to the library .. I never thought of there

Mine is closed also .. but I can try tomorrow

[William McKinley]

LOL When I say mine is closed- I mean it is closed (renovations).

[Pubbie]

He obviously ran a phony "Investigation".

[Mo1]

LOL .. don't mind me .. my brain is fried from all the reading of news I've done, plus these dang kids

I'll head over to mine tomorrow and check if no one fines the answer

[Pubbie]

I don't have time to go to my library.

Mo1 we need you to check it out, it would be VERY nice to use Time Magazine against itself.

[Mo1]

Will do

[MizSterious]

You can access the Tables of Contents at the site Neets linked. The TOC for July 21st can be read here.

I didn't find this listed in any of the July TOCs.

[maica]

Here are some other dates to be noted.
This is from the White House website.
I t is absolutely no coincidence to me that the New York Times chose July 6th, the day before the President's trip and the day after ArI Fleischer had stepped down as Press secretary to publish Joe Wilson's Op-Ed. The timing screams Dem dirty tricks to get the President's meetings with African heads of state off the front pages.

They were successful, too. All of a sudden the newscasts that week were "Bush - Africa - Niger- lies" instead of "President meeting with African leaders to focus on how America can help Africa"


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 3, 2003




Dr. Rice's Remarks

Press Briefing by Dr. Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor,
On the President's Trip to Africa
The James S. Brady Briefing Room


3:40 P.M. EDT

DR. RICE: Good afternoon. First, I'd like to provide a brief overview of the President's upcoming trip to Africa. And then I'll be happy to take your questions, as usual.

Africa is a continent of challenge and promise. The President is committed to helping African nations meet these challenges and fulfill that promise with policies and initiatives designed to extend liberty, prosperity and peace on the continent. As one of only two U.S. Presidents to visit Africa in his first term, President Bush's trip next week to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and Nigeria is emblematic of this commitment.

The President and Mrs. Bush will depart the White House on Monday, July 7th, for an overnight flight that lands them in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday, July 8th. In Senegal, the President will meet with President Wade, with whom he's met several times before. President Wade is a solid and progressive leader of West Africa's longest standing democracy and someone that the President admires as a statesman in the region. The President and Mrs. Bush will visit Goree Island, where the President will deliver remarks and tour a slave house with Mrs. Bush and President and Madam Wade. The President and Mrs. Bush will then depart for Pretoria, South Africa.

On Wednesday July 9th, the President will meet with President Mbeki, of South Africa, on a wide range of bilateral issues, as well as regional issues. They will then join Mrs. Mbeki and Mrs. Bush and other guests for a lunch. Later, the President and Mrs. Bush will join U.S. Ambassador Hume for dinner with South African and U.S. business executives.

The next morning, the President and Mrs. Bush depart Pretoria en route to Gaborone, Botswana. The President will meet with President Mogae, participating in a welcoming lunch with 500 of Botswana's leading citizens. He will then visit a Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Trade Hub Exhibit, where he will meet with -- among others -- several women entrepreneurs. The President and Mrs. Bush will also visit the Mokolodi Nature Reserve and then depart for Pretoria, where they will overnight.

On Friday, July 11th, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Entebbe, Uganda, where they will meet with President Museveni, to visit the Taso Clinic that is an AIDS clinic, and a patient support center, where he will give remarks and then depart for Abuja, Nigeria.

Saturday morning, President Bush will attend a briefing on HIV/AIDS programs and meet with mothers who are benefiting from the mother-to-child transmission prevention programs that the United States funds.

The President will then meet with President Obasanjo and deliver remarks to participants in the African/African-American biannual summit that was first organized by the late Reverend Leon Sullivan. The President and Mrs. Bush depart Nigeria for Washington.

I'm happy to take your questions.

[Pikamax]

very interesting.

[Sacajaweau]

That Nancy Luque, Atty. in my #29 post ties to everyone...Gore, Foster, Ron brown, Hugh Rodham AND Al-Alwani & Al Arian. Al Arian is the one they just picked up in Boston today

[txlurker]

The July 21st Time issue has the article "A Question of Trust"..does that answer everyone's question?

[Mike Darancette]

Let the FBI have at it, Wilson will not be happy with the anal probe he will be getting from the FBI. If Wilson or his wife ever mentioned at a party or anywhere that his wife could even spell CIA it will come out.

[michigander]

Source

And here's what Time reported in a July 17 story [A War on Wilson?]:

And some government officials have noted to TIME in interviews, (as well as to syndicated columnist Robert Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched [sic] Niger to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein's government had sought to purchase large quantities of uranium ore, sometimes referred to as yellow cake, which is used to build nuclear devices.

In an interview with TIME, Wilson, who served as an ambassador to Gabon and as a senior American diplomat in Baghdad under the current president's father, angrily said that his wife had nothing to do with his trip to Africa. "That is bulls__t. That is absolutely not the case," Wilson told TIME. "I met with between six and eight analysts and operators from CIA and elsewhere [before the Feb 2002 trip]. None of the people in that meeting did I know, and they took the decision to send me. This is a smear job."