Check out the Kristof column, which uses Wilson as an anonymous source.
It's true that Wilson never expressly claimed that Cheney sent him. However, he was evidently happy to leave that impression with his interlocutors and let them suggest that he (Wilson) was on a mission from Cheney.
Watch out. You are expressly contradicting RNC talking points.
It is actually pretty easy to read the op-ed that started all of this hullabulloo and see that Wilson said (1) Cheney asked CIA to investigate the report, then (2) CIA asked Wilson to go to Niger. Wilson has never asserted it was a request to him from Cheney.
Walter Pincus and his wife, Ann (Pincus), who’s director of public affairs for the Center for Public Integrity.
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The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization that conducts investigative research and reporting on public policy issues in the United States and around the world.
The Center was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis following a successful 11-year career in network television news.
Charles Lewis (www.Charles-Lewis.com) founded the Center for Public Integrity in 1989 and served as its executive director until December, 2004. He is now the president of The Fund for Independence in Journalism.
From 1977 through 1988, Lewis did investigative reporting at ABC News, and at CBS News as a producer for senior correspondent Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes.
Lewis has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and many other publications.
Staff
Roberta Baskin
Executive Director
An investigative journalist since the 1970s Baskin has won 75 journalism awards, including two duPont-Columbia University Awards and two George Foster Peabody Awards for her investigative reporting. Most recently she was senior Washington correspondent for Now with Bill Moyers, where she reported primarily on money and influence peddling in the federal government. Previously, as senior producer for the ABC news magazine 20/20 Baskin directed all of the program's consumer investigative reports. She also managed the Washington Bureau staff of 20/20 and Primetime, supervising producers, correspondents, editors and photographers. Baskin joined ABC from CBS News where she was chief investigative correspondent for the news magazine 48 Hours and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News.
Kathryn Kross
Deputy Director
Kathryn Kross brings more than 20 years of editorial and management experience to the Center for Public Integrity. Most recently she served as vice president and bureau chief of CNN, Washington (2002-2004) where she led the organization's largest newsgathering bureau. She served as CNN's deputy bureau chief in Washington during the 9/11 crisis and the months that followed. She spent more than ten years as a producer at ABC News Nightline before becoming the senior producer for ABC News World News Tonight.
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Open Society Institute Development Foundation (George Soros)
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Director, Office of Research Ann T. Pincus
Ann Pincus was sworn in as Director, Office of Research and Media Reaction on August 20, 1993.
Ms. Pincus has more than 30 years of experience in public affairs, marketing, and media and government relations. She recently served as Vice President of Communication at WETA, the public television and radio station for the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Her knowledge of broadcasting was also put to use when she previously worked for National Public Radio.
She has worked for both the House of Representatives, as Director of Information, and the U.S. Senate, where she served as Press Secretary for Senator Charles Mathias.
Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Ms. Pincus is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She came to Washington, D.C. in 1963 when took a position as a journalist covering Congress and reporting on politics.
We've been around this corner many many times
Regardless of what proof we show .. we are wrong and he is right