Posted on 07/11/2004 4:50:16 PM PDT by KMC1
NEW YORK - This writer went to some detail long ago to point out the very specific nature of why it was reasonable to doubt the trust-worthiness of one Joseph Wilson. But two things have hit him hard in recent days.
1)The British government's independent investigation into the Iraq/Africa uranium connection confirmed President Bush's claims on Iraq seeking nuclear material.
2) The bi-partisan 9/11 Commission's report pointed out Wilson's dishonesty about the assessment of the information in Niger, but also his lies about how he achieved the post in the first place.
The Washington Post reported that Joseph Wilson, according to the 9/11 Commission report findings WAS recommended for the job by his wife - CIA employee Valerie Plame. Wilson had denied any such connection and asked all to believe that the CIA had simply spontaneously desired Wilson to be assigned the Niger fact finding mission.
According to the Washington Post: "The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.
Wilson has asserted that his wife was not involved in the decision to send him to Niger."
After Wilson returned he shopped himself similar to a cheap woman of the night to the network television networks in order to criticize the President's State of the Union Address.
Wilson asserted that in President Bush's address when the President referred to the Iraqi regime attempting to purchase "uranium from Africa", that Bush was referring exclusively to Wilson's fact finding mission. The President did not refer to Wilson or to Niger directly in the text of his speech.
The appearance that was left on the American public was one of dishonesty - but it was dishonesty of Wilson - NOT BUSH.
Multiple African nations have since reported attempts from the Iraqi regime to seek uranium. Last week the British investigation into the Niger case specifically led the investigators to reiterate the British position (from which they had never waivered) - Saddam DID try to buy uranium from Niger. The 9/11 report casts significant doubt over ALL of Wilson's "findings" in Niger.
Joe Wilson wrote that his trip to Niger had basically consisted of meeting with Niger officials and drinking lots of mint juleps.
He should help himself to another...dishonest people do need their vices to keep them distracted from the actual facts of such matters...
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
maybe his wife thought he was such an ineffectual a**hole that he couldn't get jobs without her pulling strings behind his back (when he announced being approached, maybe she said, "oh that's nice, honey")...
maybe he didn't know SHE got him referred, and she went along with it, thinking he would be happy and feel important, now...
heh-heh...
so bill HER for the whole investigation!
You're right. Nigeria is split Muslim-Christian, but Niger is Muslim.
one of several threads on the topic, just pingin' us.
bttt
This individual was paraded all over television and given prominent stories in every major newspaper and given a soapbox to attack the President with his lies. Now the press likely won't even give 10% the amount of coverage to the truth that they had given to the lies.
bttt
Washington low level rumor mill has it that investigation has tracked source of some individuals knowledge of wife's occupation back to her and Wilson... no surprise
It's all the usual BS that comes with Democrat-manufactured scandals.
You're welcome.
Pass the flies, please.
bump
So that is under his JC Wilson International Ventures Corp., and not under Rock Creek, right?
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