Posted on 11/07/2005 12:22:00 PM PST by shhrubbery!
Sean Hannity just announced that Major General (ret) Paul Vallely will go on air on the Hannity radio show TODAY, Monday Nov. 7, 2005, to reassert that "that if anybody outed Plame, it was Joe Wilson himself" (quoting Hannity).
Vallely has been threatened with a lawsuit by Joe Wilson's lawyer if he does not retract statements he made last week on the John Batchelor show.
Click on link above for WABC's website, then click on "listen now" to hear program.
I've been saying for a long time now. these WABC guys, Hannity and Levin - if they want to really start getting some discussion going on what really happened vis-a-vis the whole Wilson/Niger/forged documents thing - starting talking to their colleague John Batchelor and his guests about it.
I think "slander."
Actually it would be libel. But government bodies are immune to such suits.
Wilson was clearly a public official in my opinion.
Well the story I heard was that on their first date Old Joe and his wife-to-be were having sex. As Joe got in the short strokes his Lover-at-the-time (same broad) started shouting at the top of her lungs, " Drive it home Joe, I am a spy". I guess she thought that would turn him on. Right after that Joe showed up everywhere bragging about screwing a CIA agent.
(it would be a tougher call if it were Wesley Clark)
Btw, re potential slander charges: Wilson's friends in the media are trying to call him a "private citizen" now...
...More generally, I find the attacks on a private citizen like Wilson rather distasteful. Sure, he injected himself into the public arena with his op-ed column and TV appearances, and so some scrutiny is fair. But I figure it's more important to examine and probe the credibility of, say, the vice president than a retired ambassador. [emphasis mine -- shhrub]--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times (scroll down to point #5 under "Kristof: 'I might have gotten it right!'" on Mickey Kaus's blog, dated November 4)
bttt
You may be right, but I think Wilson's lawyer's accusation is aimed at verbal statements made on the John Batchelor show on Thursday, Nov. 3, and then repeated to WND on Friday, Nov 4 (see links posted in reply #1).
Vallely on air now.
private citizen my arse.......
the most shocking thing about this is how totally and completely Fitzgerald was uninterested in this. his initial charge was to determine who leaked Plame's status, but he isn't interested in that at all, isn't even investigating it. his grand jury was simply constructed as a perjury trap for Libby and Rove.
LOL!!! email will knock 'em down...
Vallely is shaking in his boots, Major NOT, LOL!!
It's even better when they hit the Reply to All button.... LOL.
I didn't realize the email was preceeded with a phone call on Saturday night.
Mmmm......I wonder if Joe is a little paranoid, reading the websites to see if we are hot, warm or cold. Wonder if Joe is scared?
General V is shredding Wilson at this very time.
General V brought up the point that we have brought up before. Why didn't Fitzy subpoena Plame's/Wilson's neighbors and social circles to find out when they knew she was CIA.
General V, also, brought up the 64 million $ question, why didn't Wilson have to appear at the grand jury and be sworn in.
Now quotes Max Boot: "Joe Wilson has retailed more whoppers than Burger King (my tagline).
Says Wilson appeared on Fox News x-number of times (I didn't get the number) between August 13 2002 and December 2002.
Says he (Vallely) and General McInerney both met Wilson and believed he had an agenda, an anti-war agenda.
Says Wilson's lawyer sent "ridiculous" email with several attachments that weren't supposed to be sent -- got follow-up emails imploring recipient (WND?) to destroy those attachments.
Hannity asks if anyone else heard Wilson's comment to Vallely re wife working at CIA. Vallely says he doesn't remember who else might have been in the green room at the same time, but that Fox archives show Vallely and Wilson were together there at least three times.
Vallely places time frame for this incident between summer and early fall of 2002.
Vallely says friends of his at CIA also had same experience with Joe Wilson (i.e. that Wilson bragged about his wife working at CIA).
Hannity asks for names, Vallely says he could tell Hannity "on background" but he doesn't want to get anyone else implicated publicly right now.
Thanks for the recap.
Agreed. Apparently he was after only the administration, because if it was just perjury charges he was after, he could have hit hte mother lod had he had Wilson testify.
Sweating profusely no doubt....
Wilson didn't appear before the GJ because the issue of whether Plame's outing was a crime, was determined quickly - it wasn't. at that point, the GJ should have been closed down. instead, it remained opened as the perjury trap setting for Libby and Rove - nothing more.
I just missed Vallely what did he say>
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