[Christian4Bush]

That's gonna leave a mark...

Good find.

[Rummyfan]

(Joseph C. Wilson, Op-Ed, “What I Didn’t Find In Africa,” The New York Times, 7/6/03)

As Ann Coulter said in her piece yesterday, the title of that op-ed is a hoot. What I didn't find in Africa? Polar bears? Penguins? Hockey players? The list is endless!

[1Old Pro]

bttt, I'm sure the NY Times will want to reprint this

[ClancyJ]

Thanks for posting this. Looks like all of us will have to circumvent the "media" for the truth.

[hoosiermama]

There's so much smoke Joe and Val MUST be trying to hide something.....Wonder what it is?

[april15Bendovr]

Evidence of Niger uranium trade 'years before war' (What Wilson couldn't learn sipping tea)
Financial Times by way of Iraq News (Laurie Mylroie) ^ | June 27 2004 | Mark Huband

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1161490/posts

[NC28203]

>>>Joe Wilson: “[W]hat They Did, What The Office Of The Vice President Did, And, In Fact, I Believe Now From Mr. Libby’s Statement, It Was Probably The Vice President Himself ...” (CNN’s “Late Edition,” 8/3/03)

The full quote from that interview provides a different picture.

WILSON: Well, look, it's absolutely true that neither the vice president nor Dr. Rice nor even George Tenet knew that I was traveling to Niger.

What they did, what the office of the vice president did, and, in fact, I believe now from Mr. Libby's statement, it was probably the vice president himself...

BLITZER: Scooter Libby is the chief of staff for the vice president.

WILSON: Scooter Libby.

They asked essentially that we follow up on this report -- that the agency follow up on the report. So it was a question that went to the CIA briefer from the Office of the Vice President. The CIA, at the operational level, made a determination that the best way to answer this serious question was to send somebody out there who knew something about both the uranium business and those Niger officials that were in office at the time these reported documents were executed.

[weegee]

PING, you had questions about quotes regarding Wilson and Cheney.

[doug from upland]

Great stuff.

[conservativebabe]

This guy is an unbelievable fraud.

[King Prout]

good find.
ping.

[bitt]

refresh your arguments - information ping

[kcvl]

bttt

[FreedomCalls]

Excellent summary. And I'm still stunned that such an incompetant would be selected to be sent on such a mission. He didn't even understand what it was he was supposed to be looking for.

Joe Wilson:  “No. My wife served as a conduit, as I put in my book. When her supervisors asked her to contact me for the purposes of coming into the CIA to discuss all the issues surrounding this allegation of Niger selling uranium to Iraq.”   (CNN’s “Late Edition,” 7/18/04)

The allegation is that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Niger, not that Niger sold uranium to Iraq. Just documenting the attempt to purchase would satisfy his mission. Which he did inadvertantly. It's just as if a know felon walked into a gun store and tried to purchase an AK-47. The gun store would turn him down. But that doesn't mean he didn't try. Just as here when Niger turned down Iraq's offers. Iraq still nevertheless "sought" to purchase the uranium. The President and British Intelligence were correct, Joe Wilson continues to lie about it.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." (President Bush, in the State of the Union Address, January 28th, 2003)

[Aldin]

Tag for later

[ChadGore]

bump

[TexasCajun]

Big Bump!

Why aren't our guys shoving these facts in the face of the dimwits and their media friends?

[TexasCajun]

Where's that pic of Joe and wife in the whitehouse with Slick?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Wow, thanks for posting this. I now have at my fingertips things I know, but had trouble pulling out of my brain with the documentation needed.

Fitzapatrick is going to do what Fitzpatrick is going to do. Nothing we can say or do will change that.

We can not rely on our elected representatives to go after Wilson. They will not. Look at how they folded with the memo Sean Hannity made public.

"I'm sorry Mr. Dem! Sean Hannity was a bad boy to expose that memo."

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The Rockefeller Memo:

"We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

"1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

"For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.

"The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]

"2) Assiduously prepare Democratic 'additional views' to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.

"In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.

"The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission [i.e., the Corzine Amendment.]

"3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration's use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.

"The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:

"A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:

"B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

"In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

"SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.

"The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives."

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The Corzine Amendment http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/s071603b.html

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How smart can they be? The memo has been exposed for all and they still allowed the dems to go along with their plans.

It is up to us to pull the plug on Wilson. MSM will not do it. The GOP Senate will not do it. We can do it and we can succeed. We did with rathergate. True MSM ignored (and continues to ignore) the story, the obvious forgeries, the obvious agenda of rather. But we were successful. Rather is gone. Mapes--gone. All they have with that story is hot air and the appearance of idiocy.

It will take hard work. It will take letters to our reps, letters to the media, it will take an endless pounding with the facts. Bring it down to the local level-write those small town newspapers. Instead of bemoaning the ignorance of the sheeple, educate them. Ask what the GOP is hiding by refusing to go after Wilson's lies. The closer we come to midterm elections, the more pressure to be applied. The GOP will react to one thing-losing their seats resulting in losing the majority.

If Wilson walks away the hero in this we have no one to blame but ourselves. We cannot rely on 99.9% of anyone in the halls of Congress.

[petercooper]

bttt