Thanks for the info. Sincerely appreciate it. Nah, I never followed the story. I only heard about it when media tried to turn it into another Watergate. So one more question if you will....why is Wilson important? Who cares if he went to Niger or wherever?
There is still a lesson here......putting these losers on ignore is the right thing to do......otherwise nonsensical things like this turn into a huge scandal....
Robert Novak asked Armitage how a partisan zealot and loudmouth like Wilson had been selected for the sensitive mission to Niger, and Armitage said that Wilson’s wife - who worked for the CIA - had recommended him. Apparently many in the WH were wondering who Wilson was and how he was given that assignment, so the word got around about Plame. The WH was playing catch-up - they were being called liars and thugs by someone they didn’t even know, and who was allegedly sent to Niger on behalf of Cheney! The press eventually asked Rove and Libby and Fleischer about Plame, and they apparently affirmed what the press - or some of the press - already knew. I don’t think anybody really even thought that they might be divulging illegal information.
The famous "sixteen words" from the President's SOTU address in January, 2003:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Wilson wrote a New York Times column in July, 2003 about "What I Didn't Find In Niger". In it, he inferred that VP Cheney had sent him to Niger to investigate the above claim -- in February, 2002.
He reported that he found no evidence to support the claim.
Wilson's column was immediately interpreted by the MSM and the Democrats as "Bush lied".
Never mind the fact that Wilson was actually sent to Niger by his CIA wife. Never mind that Niger wasn't specified in the 16 words. Never mind that British intelligence still stands by their report.
And never mind that Wilson's verbal report to the CIA upon returning was taken to confirm the evidence. And, finally, never mind the fact that, in January, 2003, Wilson had authored op-eds for the San Jose Mercury-News and addressed a student group at UCal-Santa Barbara counseling against an invasion of Iraq because a.) Hussein had WMD and b.) he would use them.
Wilson's column in the NYT was a partisan-inspired political hit job, apparently engineered by factions within the CIA, which began the firestorm that eventually consumed Bush's credibility.
Oddly, Wilson was proven a liar by the 9/11 Commission's investigation and a Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry. The Washington Post even printed a front-page retraction of their reporting on his story.
Nonetheless, all this is overlooked by the partisan media in order to keep the "Bush lied" meme intact.
1984?