"when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports."
And that's the whole crux of the matter.
Joe Wilson never filed a report with the CIA,and the MSM just took his word as credible.
And still do.
When this was brought up the other night on TV Matthews and Isikoff dismissed it out of hand with "This isn't about Joe Wilson!"
Joe Wilson was, is, and always will be a lier! In fact the British MI-6 stands behind their intelligence that Iraq was attempting to obtain "yellow-cake urainium" for a nuclear weapon! Wilson intended to embarrass President Bush, and instead exposed his wife as a CIA agent, and then planted the false story that the Bush administration was out to get him and his wife, and that is the reason his wife was disclosed publically.
Wilson supported John F-ing Kerry for President, and gives money to the Liberals and moveon.org, need I say anymore?
The truth will come out in talk radio, freerepublic.com, and other news sources, and certainly NOT in the MSM.
"whom the CIA sent on a brief trip to Niger in February 2002."
That is an outright lie! Wilson's wife sent him to Niger in an attempt to undermine President Bush!
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