Posted on 07/15/2004 7:18:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
Joe Wilson Lied and Owes George W. Bush and America (and Me) an Apology
The Senate Intelligence Committee let some air – a lot of air - out of Joe Wilson’s overly inflated ego last Friday when it issued its first report on prewar intelligence. While the committee heaped most of its criticism on the Central Intelligence Agency for getting almost everything wrong about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction it pointedly rebuked the former ambassador and his infamous mission to Niger.
Wilson spent 8 days in the African nation in February 2002 investigating reports that Iraq had attempted to buy “yellowcake” uranium. He told the CIA that he found no evidence to substantiate that claim. So when President Bush said the “16 words” in his 2003 State of the Union address that Wilson wrongly assumed contradicted his report, he was apoplectic. The phrase used as part of the overall case for justifying the invasion of Iraq was, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
In July 2003, Wilson wrote and op-ed piece for the New York Times titled, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” where he said the administration was lying about an Iraq-Niger uranium connection. This catapulted the anti-Bush, anti-war media a full frenzy and the White House clumsily tried to defend its use of the phrase. Reasoned discussion was tossed aside as the media besieged the Bush administration with accusations of deception and manipulation. The White House meekly backed off the claim and tried to portray it as something of a clerical error.
A week later, Robert Novak was wrote a column during which he said that a member of the administration told him that Wilson got the Niger assignment because his wife, an “operative” for the CIA promoted him for it. Probably compelled to prove that he was still the consummate insider, Novak published the name of Wilson’s spouse, Valerie Plame. That’s when the real trouble began. Wilson loudly cried foul, saying that Plame was an undercover agent and that the White House had blown her cover.
Following Novak’s column, Wilson said White House political advisor Karl Rove began to shop the story around to several journalists, supposedly saying that his wife was “fair game.” Except for the fact that intentionally exposing a covert agent is a crime, it first appeared that this was another inning in the endless game of political hardball. But Wilson quickly became aware that the spotlight that he intended for himself had shone on someone standing very close to him; someone that he knew lived in the shadows.
Wilson worked all of the talk shows hard, becoming an instant media darling. His call for Rove to be “frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs,” will long be remembered. Opponents of the President now had the scandal they had long sought. None of their previous attempts had gotten much traction, but now they could dust off the Watergate playbook and focus on regime change.
The media’s zeal to parrot Wilson’s increasingly vitriolic accusations obscured what Novak had really discovered, something that was equally important. It wasn’t until last Friday that the other shoe dropped.
(Excerpt) Read more at jeffgannon.com ...
Sure, Jeff. When pigs fly and shrimp whistle. These people aren'y bound by the niceties of normal people.
Good find; that's a well-written and informative article.
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When do you think Pinch Sulzberger will print this item as a balancing Op Ed piece in The New York Times?
The same day he turns in his gun permit.
Well someone ought to send this to the DNC as they still have this "scandal" on their website.
...or the same day that the NYTimes returns that Pulitzer for that fictional series about the Soviet Union.
Ping for later read.
Contact Senate Democrats via telephone and demand they apologize! Tell them America and the President deserves better than they are getting from them. Their numbers can be found on senate.gov
I've contacted my senators and noted every word their staff says then I will use it against them when election time for them comes up.
Being a liberal means you never have to apologize for lying, you never have to admit you are wrong....and that the mainstream media will never ever hold you accountable for lying, or being wrong.
Its very easy to be a Liberal. Which is one of the reasons I dislike them so very much.
And how much coverage has has "the Media" devoted to covering the new information that shows Wilson was a liar?
White House correspondent BUMP!
somebody should send Wilson the article.
Demoncrats are deeply saddened by this news.
The idea of an apology letting them off the hook however is too easy.
They need to be made to eat their words.
I suggest a National Cr*pfest, where the Bullsh*t will be piled high on their plates.
Sort of a sequel to that Nathan's hot dog eating thing.
Seriesly. How about Nov 3? LOL!!!
Apparently he still works for the BJ administration! This is a monsterous conspiracy that started the worldwide anti-war movement and emboldened the terrorists foreign and domestic. This most likely started at the Wicked Witch' war room.
The really sick part is that these liars have no consequences in the Stone-age press due to their DNC censors.
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Don't hold your breath waiting for that apology.
The real apologies should come from the vast media sources which interviewed Wilson, believed his story without question, reported it as fact, and jammed it down the throats of the American people.
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