Joe Wilson: Wife Divulged CIA Secret on Fourth Date

NewsMax ^ | 5/9/04 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

Bush administration Uraniumgate accuser Joe Wilson defended his wife Valerie Plame on Sunday for blowing her CIA cover during what he described as "a heavy make out session" shortly after the couple first met in the 1990s.

"Well, I had all the requisite security clearances and, in fact, there is some personal discretion that is allowed when you are in personal relationships," Wilson told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.

Malzberg had asked about Wilson's admission to Vanity Fair in January that his wife revealed her CIA indentity in a moment of heated passion on their third or fourth date:

The magazine reported:

"Meeting in Paris, London and Brussels, [the relationship between Plame and Wilson] got very serious, very quickly. On the third or fourth date, he says, they were in the middle of a 'heavy make-out' session when she said she had something to tell him."

At that point Wilson told VF that his undercover enamorata interrupted their tryst and came clean.

"She was, she explained, undercover in the CIA," VF said. Wilson told the magazine that the revelation "did nothing to dampen my ardour. My only question was: Is your name really Valerie?"

The Bush accuser, whose new book "The Politics of Truth" details his outrage over having his wife outed by the White House, was less forthcoming about a report claiming that as early as 1994 her cover had been blown, forcing the CIA to return her to the U.S.

"I won't talk about anything related to her career, other than to point out to you that the CIA tells Justice Department investigators that she's covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act," Wilson told Malzberg.

In October, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reported: "The C.I.A. suspected that [master spy] Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name [along with those of other spies] to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994."

At the time, Kristof noted, Wilson's wife was brought home for safety reasons and "was already in transition away from undercover work to management."

[maxwell]

classified information is given out on a NEED TO KNOW basis only

Yep.

[Clara Lou]

The man is a blithering ass. That just about covers it.

[leadpenny]

I think it is time for a couple of polygraph test - Wilson and his wife. Someone is trying to "hawk" some movie rights.

[Larry Lucido]

revealed her CIA indentity in a moment of heated passion on their third or fourth date

Hmm. I've often thought about telling girls I was with the CIA, but that would have been sometime before the point of "heated passion."

[leadpenny]

I didn't see your comment before I posted. That is exactly the con game they are trying to pull.

[tang-soo]

"Well, I had all the requisite security clearances and, in fact, there is some personal discretion that is allowed when you are in personal relationships,"

This i crap! I don't believe that for a minute. Just because you have a clearance, doe NOT mean you have the "need to know" justification. And if he did have the need to know, the briefing would come from a security agent once the needed background investigation was complete, not from some hot honey in the back of a car.

Out of one side of his mouth, he wants us to believe how senstitive the information about his wife's duties were - that she as greatly harmed by the disclosure of her name. Then out of the other side, she was so careless to devulge her work to someone she has "had a personall relationship with". What does that mean, you give somebody a Lewinsky, that means you can relay senistive and classified intel information.

Did she think about the number of lives she was potentially placing in danger by violating her oath. She did not kno for sure if he was a spy or not - that's what background investigations are for. I remember a case in the 1980s when a US military officer married a German woman and lived with her for more than 10 years. She was a sleeper agent and worked for the East Germans as a spy. Only after the damagae was done did he find out who she was and what her motivation was.

As Stossel says "give me a break!"

[Larry Lucido]

I also told all the (sl)easy women I dated (in my bachelor days) that I was a secret agent

Beat me to it! LOL!

[Anti-Bush Hater]

Joe Wilson? Mrs. Wilson?

Didn't they VIOLATE anti-Nepotism laws by the Mrs.'s putting Jow as the head of that "Investigation" trip to Niger?

[NetValue]

"'Well, I had all the requisite security clearances and, in fact, there is some personal discretion that is allowed when you are in personal relationships,' Wilson told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg."

Ahhh, but the need-to-know rule WAS broken here. She was bragging. The very worst thing an agent can do. Punish her.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

make-out session

Leave it to the sleazy democrats to combine national security and sex.

[stylin_geek]

So, what are the chances Joe will be called on his bald faced lie?

[Sacajaweau]

And she could have been a double agent, too.

[Mike Darancette]

"a heavy make out session"

With Wilson that could be considered torture.

[Mulder]

"Well, I had all the requisite security clearances and, in fact, there is some personal discretion that is allowed when you are in personal relationships,"

"Requisite security clearances" doesn't cut it. There is also a "need to know" requirement in addition to a sufficient clearance.

And there is NO discretion for personal relationships, even if you are married to the person.

[Enterprise]

"Joe Wilson: Wife Divulged CIA Secret on Fourth Date"

Was she holding Mr. Microphone at the time?

[dandi]

None. Zip. Nada.

And BTW, he violated the law also by not reporting it immediately.

[mass55th]

"Sounds like she's 'easy."

And it's her own husband who put her being easy out there. He's a real classy guy ain't he?

[oldironsides]

I cannot understand why one of these GOP political operatives did not pick up on the Greenpeace "hell raising" in Iraq over the "yellowcake" they found. They tried to get the coalition forces to take it out. I think the right hand does not know what in he** the left hand is doing. Joe Wilson is an idiot. Where did the "yellowcake" come from and why is it not being addressed?

[stylin_geek]

As I posted earlier, I knew his claim about "requisite security clearances" was garbage. However, I didn't know that it was a violation to not report it, although in retrospect, it seems obvious.

[Sacajaweau]

My book version:Valerie whispered: "I'm an undercover agent".

"Wilson, taking her literally, threw the covers over her.....and, and.....

What a jerk he is!