Let's turn that question around, "Have you ever considered there was not an innocent nor logical explanation for Wilson being chosen? Joe and Valerie were not supportive of this president nor of his Iraqi policies. CIA missions are supposed to be confidential...did it ever occur to you to ask why Joseph Wilson, not only didn't keep it confidential; he wrote an op-ed piece for the NYT about the mission and WMD's that the Senate declared was full of lies. Therefore, Joe Wilson has been thoroughly discredited, and I can't imagine anyone not asking why he was sent, and why he has been allowed to espouse his lies etc. IMO, he and Valerie should be the ones indicted for deliberately conspiring to bring down a presidency with fraudulent documents and lies meant to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush.
Have you asked yourself why, if her life as a covert agent was in such danger, she opted to reveal her covert agent status to a MARRIED man during a 'heavy make out session' on their 3rd or 4th date? I don't believe she knew him that well, in that short of time, to know that he could or could not be trusted. I wonder if she told anyone else her status after a few dates that got 'hot and heavy'?
Some of us have certainly wondered what the explanation was for sending Wilson on this mission. I didn't find a 'logical or innocent' reason, but rather a sinister reason, and that's why his op-ed piece was full of lies!
And I cannot understand why Fitzgerald wouldn't have brought Wilson into the investigation - after all it was to find out about the leak! Maybe he was called into GJ and we don't know about it. Wouldn't Fitzgerald have found Wilson lying just like Libby?
Has anyone here ever considered that there's an innocent and logical explanation for how Wilson was chosen?
Let's turn that question around, "Have you ever considered there was not an innocent nor logical explanation for Wilson being chosen?
Of course! Duh! Everyone on this board has explored that possibility. I'm just allowing that it could have been as simple as her telling a superior that he was qualified & available to go. Someone higher up than Valerie Plame okay'd his trip so someone pretty high up also felt him qualified.
I don't know that there's much proof that Plame was against Bush's policies. And I'm suprised at Wilson's partisanship considering Poppy Bush seemed to think pretty highly of him.
I wonder if Wilson became a zealous anti-Bush partisan only after he felt that he'd been unfairly attacked and his wife's career ruined.
And yes - I do wonder why he was allowed to write an op-ed piece in the NY Times and why he wasn't under some sort of confidentiality agreement. I'm even-handed in my position against releasing classified info.
So my question is....why hasn't the Republican-controlled congress investigated that issue?