| Joe Wilson Lied |
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July 13, 2004 |
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RUSH: You all remember Joe Wilson? This debonair, urbane man who posed on the cover of Vanity Fair with his CIA "agent" wife, Valerie Plame? She was wearing shades and a scarf to protect her identity. You'll also remember that there's a huge investigation being conducted to find out who leaked her identity as an "agent" to Bob Novak. Well, the Senate intelligence committee report sort of devastates Joe Wilson. Former ambassador (to Gabon) Joe Wilson was ta poster boy for anti-war Democrats. He accused the Bush administration of manipulating Iraq intelligence. He accused Bush advisor Karl Rove of leaking the name of his wife, Valerie Plame for the press. He said he wanted to see Karl Rove "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." In February 2002, the CIA dispatched Joe Wilson to Nee'ger to investigate a claim that Iraq was trying to procure yellow cake uranium, used for nuclear weapons.
 He said that his wife had "no involvement" in recommending him for this mission. He also said he found there was nothing to the yellowcake claim, and accused the White House of ignoring his findings. He called President Bush a liar. Vice President Cheney "a lying SOB." Or, put another way, a lying son of a b-i-itch. That's as close as I'll get to saying in this FCC climate -- even if I am quoting a famous Democrat. The Senate intelligence committee's report on Iraq intelligence as contradicted Joe Wilson on every point. In fact, the Senate intelligence committee in its unanimous report found that Wilson's Niger investigation strengthened the case that Iraq was seeking yellow cake, and the European intelligence community to this day stands by that report.
The Senate intelligence committee also found that his CIA "agent" wife had actively campaigned to get him hired for the gig, when he had said, "She had nothing to do with it." The report also found the Senate intelligence committee's unanimous report also found that Joe Wilson had lied to the press. Yes, it was Joe Wilson who lied. Now, Ambassador Wilson. Who is he beyond all this? Well, he has donated money and campaigned for John Kerry. Now, we know he lied about his role in formulating intelligence. We know that he lied about his wife's role in putting him in a position to do political damage. He betrayed the trust of the American people during war. So, Mr. Kerry, a quick little question regarding your comrade, Ambassador Joe Wilson. "What did you know and when did you know it about his intentions?" |
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Because he asked for this assignment in Niger to purposely torpedo the acquisition of accurate intelligence on Iraq so as to undermine the Bush administration po-litically, and he did use his wife and her contacts at the CIA to get that assignment. When he went to Niger, he spent time "drinking sweet mint tea," supposedly reading documents. He pushed the issue of the "outing" of his wife. This whole business with the Novak leak.
He pushed that issue to divert attention from her role in getting him appointed to the Niger job. He pushed her to push the CIA for his appointment, the purpose of this was to pour water on the Niger-Iraq connection. He even told lies to the Washington Post about knowing the names and dates on certain documents were fake, since he hadn't seen them until eight months later. I mean, I think this is big. The media was duped. The State of the Union address was altered because of this, and it's been under-reported until now. He was the darling of the Washington establishment. He is an important advisor to the Kerry campaign. He was all over the media for weeks, and he was a fraud.
 This is no different than Janet Cook or Jayson Blair, folks. He did write op-eds. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that wasn't true. He told the Washington Post things that weren't true. He wrote a book that had all kinds of falsehoods in it, and he posed on the cover of Vanity Fair in his Jaguar with his wife. He was so afraid her identity had been outed, but there they are in his Jaguar all decked out like James Bond and a Bond girl on the cover of Vanity Fair, and now we know why she was outed, folks.
Now we know why she was outed: because somebody knew that she played a role in getting him appointed, and the whole purpose of outing her was to try to get the truth of this story out, a story which has never been pursued or explained and he which denies repeatedly. He lobbied for the job to go to Niger through his wife. He was highly motivated to do this job. This is what needs to be examined. He sought to torpedo Bush and this war effort. He conducted almost no independent investigation. He references documents he never saw.
He then writes a piece in the New York Times op-ed section publicly challenging the president's speech -- and lest we forget, Joe Wilson instigated a criminal investigation that has included interviews of the president and the vice president, and he fingered Karl Rove and a couple of others as possible leakers without any basis whatsoever, when in fact he's the one that has been saying things which are not true from the get-go. And he's also contributed to Hillary Clinton; he's contributed to Ted Kennedy, and he worked for Algore. That's why he would never have gotten this assignment on his own credentials. He needed an inside job to get this job done, and that was his wife, Valerie Plame.
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