Debunking Distortions About My Trip to Niger (Joe Wilson LTTE in WP)

[huckleberry]

Yay! Joe Wilson fights back!

Saturday, July 17, 2004; Page A17

For the second time in a year, your paper has published an article falsely suggesting that my wife, Valerie Plame, was responsible for the trip I took to Niger on behalf of the U.S. government to look into allegations that Iraq had sought to purchase several hundred tons of yellowcake uranium from that West African country. Last July 14, Robert Novak, claiming two senior sources, exposed Valerie as an "agency operative suggested sending him to Niger." Novak went ahead with his column despite the fact that the CIA had urged him not to disclose her identity. That leak to Novak may well have been a federal crime and is under investigation.


In the year since the betrayal of Valerie's covert status, it has been widely understood that she is irrelevant to the unpaid mission I undertook or the conclusions I reached. But your paper's recent article acted as a funnel for this scurrilous and extraneous charge, uncritically citing the Republican-written Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report.

more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56501-2004Jul16.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. good, cuz that one was growing some legs on cable news n/t

[H2O Man]

2. It would be great

if you could post your message on the Plame Indictment threads, now on #8 .... this is a valuable contribution to the on-going discussion of this topic.

[LittleApple81]

3. But his letter appearing in Salon is longer, isn't it?

And it is a letter to the committee
July 16, 2004 |

The Hon. Pat Roberts, Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The Hon. Jay Rockefeller, Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Dear Sen. Roberts and Sen. Rockefeller,

I read with great surprise and consternation the Niger portion of Sens. Roberts, Bond and Hatch's additional comments to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee's Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Assessment on Iraq. I am taking this opportunity to clarify some of the issues raised in these comments.

more at link:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/16/wilson_letter/index_np.html

you can get a free day pass to read the whole article (by watching an add)

[Moderator]

4. Kick

:kick:

[spooky3]

5. Unfortunately, today's Ombudsman column muddies the water...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58334-2004Jul17.html

[The Zanti Regent]

6. The WHORESHINGTON POST will go on lying about Joe Wilson!

They won't stop. That worhtless piece of shit will lie any lie for the GOP!