[Miss Marple]

Well, I would like to know how (before he wrote his book) he got the money to have:

a $765,000 house in DC
a Jaguar convertible
a Mercedes sedan
a $14,000 Rollex watch
a kitchen remodel with granite countertops
Oriental rugs in every public room of his home
maxed out donations to Gore, Kerry, and assorted Rat politicians
attendance in expensive clothes at many DC cocktail parties, including White House dinners
support for two children from a previous marriage
nanny or pricey day care for the twins born in his current marriage
start-up money for his "consulting" company

All of this on the retirement pay of a mid-level bureaucrat with his wife's salary at the same level. Neither Plame nor Wilson comes from a moneyed background. WHERE did the money come from?

[maxter]

"All of this on the retirement pay of a mid-level bureaucrat with his wife's salary at the same level. Neither Plame nor Wilson comes from a moneyed background. WHERE did the money come from?"

That is a great question. Inquiring minds want to know. Love your tag line by the way.

[syriacus]

nanny or pricey day care for the twins born in his current marriage

Joe said, in an interview, that Valerie wanted him to stay home to help with the twins. He said it was illogical that she would have suggested he go to Niger for 8 days.

Makes you wonder how she could take care of them, alone, when he was on tours for his book and for Kerry's campaign.

[Just mythoughts]

WOW, some grand retirement plan. Obviously not surviving on a union pension.

[razorback-bert]

I make the low nut on that "Lifestyle" to be $15,000 a month, they must a gotten a Clinton bookdeal, which are the cattle futures market of DC.

[FreeAtlanta]

Excellent!! Worthy of repeating!

Well, I would like to know how (before he wrote his book) he got the money to have:

a $765,000 house in DC
a Jaguar convertible
a Mercedes sedan
a $14,000 Rollex watch
a kitchen remodel with granite countertops
Oriental rugs in every public room of his home
maxed out donations to Gore, Kerry, and assorted Rat politicians
attendance in expensive clothes at many DC cocktail parties, including White House dinners
support for two children from a previous marriage
nanny or pricey day care for the twins born in his current marriage
start-up money for his "consulting" company

All of this on the retirement pay of a mid-level bureaucrat with his wife's salary at the same level. Neither Plame nor Wilson comes from a moneyed background.

WHERE did the money come from?

[hgro]

All of this on the retirement pay of a mid-level bureaucrat with his wife's salary at the same level. Neither Plame nor Wilson comes from a moneyed background. WHERE did the money come from?

Simple my dear Watson, Wilson is a typical D.C. establishment crook.

[rock58seg]

They bought Enron and held on?
They invested $10,000 in cattle futures?
They took financial advice from Martha Stuart?
Someone got it for them Wholesale?
They beat Geraldo to the secret room?
They have stock in small Arkansas airports?
He rolled over the retirement money from his boyhood paper route into a mutual fund.