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Salon.com has a "defense" of Joe Wilson. For the most part, the piece is a dull, he-said she-said about the controversy so far, generally sympathetic to Wilson, with some sneaky bits hid in the dull prose in order to make them seem more reasonable. For example the author, Mary Jacoby, says "But no sale of uranium ever took place, Wilson reported, and that conclusion is not in dispute." That's true, but Bush never said Iraq purchased the uranium, he merely said Iraq sought it. Wilson said Iraq didn't and that his cryptic sweet-tea swilling conversations proved it. That's the part that's in dispute. Nobody sent Wilson to Africa because they thought Iraq actually obtained the uranium. This is a back-handed way of bolstering Wilson's "credibility" in an area where it was never questioned. Wilson, by the way, also contends that Africa is by and large a very hot contintent with many exotic animals. That conclusion is not in dispute either.

Mary Jacoby is the spouse of Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson of the bogus Golden Showers / Trump Dossier

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Makes me wonder if it might not just be Russians here but French intelligence meddling in US elections too.

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So we’ve got the wife of the founder of Fusion GPS defending Joe Wilson, confirming a connection we already suspected—good work.

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Lookee here...

Salon should know that you can't "choreograph" bloggers. And I defy them to prove that Bob Novak was being choreographed. That's just flatly dumb and defies common sense. Is Jacoby lying on orders from Blumenthal? Or is she simply imagining things? I mean, come on, there is some actual merit to the case that Wilson deliberately lied for partisan reasons about some of the most serious issues imagineable. That's pretty much been proven. The case that Bush lied, meanwhile, continues to fall apart.

Oh, look at this, too:

UPDATE Jacoby was Wes Clark's press secretary.

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