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RUSH: Now, yesterday afternoon, here\u2019s this press conference with Chuck Schumer and Joe Wilson. I am convinced that Schumer is Wilson\u2019s handler. I am convinced these guys have a relationship that goes back. I think that they have coordinated things and I think Wilson is a party hack of the Democrats and I think he\u2019s been involved in a long-ago hatched plan to try to bring down the Bush administration on the basis of the Iraq war. Remember: When he first went to Niger, he did find evidence that the British intelligence report on the Iraqis attempting to buy or seeking yellow cake uranium was true. He found it, and he was asked to change it and he changed it. He was asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee, ?Why did you change it??<\/line>?Well, I might have gotten some dates wrong. I might have forgotten some of the people,? and so forth. <\/line>But he\u2019s utterly unreliable, a hundred percent unreliable, and it\u2019s just typical that the left would glom on as some kind of paragon of virtue, somebody who has demonstrated publicly for years that you can\u2019t trust him. This is the last guy you want leading your brigade, and they held right behind him and it\u2019s all because Chuck Schumer is his handler and Chuck wants to be front and center. Chuck\u2019s sitting there thinking, ?Why does Harry Reid get all the attention? Why does Leahy get all the attention? I\u2019m the crack lawyer on this committee. I\u2019m the guy that they ought to be talking to!? So he\u2019s trying to maneuver himself out there, but he, again, has no clue how he appears outside of New York. It\u2019s just not helping at all. Here\u2019s how he opened the press conference yesterday with himself and his ?agent,? if you will — his covert agent. If anybody\u2019s been covert in this whole thing in two years, it\u2019s Joe Wilson. If we can get an idea of what Schumer and Wilson conjured up and cooked up, if anybody\u2019s been behaving in a covert way and trying to keep all the sniffing dogs away from what really went on, it\u2019s Joe Wilson — and here\u2019s how Schumer opened the presser.<\/line> SCHUMER: I am pleased to be here today with Ambassador Joe Wilson, but I think we both wish this really weren\u2019t necessary.<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape! Who do you think you\u2019re kidding? You\u2019ve been living for this moment. This was the day that was going to vault you head and shoulders ahead of every other Democrat. You were going to get Karl Rove. It was going to personally be your takedown. You couldn\u2019t have said something more opposite the truth than that, Senator. We both wish this really wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/line>SCHUMER: What happened to this man and his family is absolutely abominable, and I have long led the push to get to the bottom of how his wife, an undercover [sic] CIA employee, was exposed for what appeared to be political motivations. I didn\u2019t know Joe Wilson or his wife or have any idea who did the leaks when the day after I read in the newspaper about them, that I called for an investigation.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s yesterday. So the New York Times<\/a> comes out this morning and totally blows Schumer out of the water because it\u2019s clear Rove didn\u2019t learn anything about Wilson\u2019s wife from anybody but a journalist, and he was not calling all over the town trying to leak the information to do any damage. All right. One more bite. Move on to #10 here. If you need any more evidence, here: Go back to CNN and this is Wilson, appearing with Wolf Blitzer, and Blitzer says, “Look, the other argument that\u2019s been made against you, Ambassador Wilson, is that you sought to capitalize on this extravaganza. Having that photo shoot with your wife in Vanity Fair, who was a supposed clandestine officer of the CIA, you\u2019ve tried to enrich yourself writing this book and all that. What do you make of those accusations which are serious accusations, as you know, that have been leveled against you?”<\/line>WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape! Then what has all of this been about? That\u2019s it. Finit! His wife was not a clandestine officer the day Bob Novak blew her identity. There\u2019s also news all over. In fact, from the Washington Times<\/a> today, former CIA covert agent who was Valerie Plame\u2019s boss, we mentioned this guy to you the other day. His name is Fred Rustmann, and he was a covert agent for 20 of 24 years, and he said, ?She made no bones about the fact she was an agency employee and that her husband was a diplomat. Her neighbors knew this. Her friends knew it. His friends knew it. A lot of blame could be put onto central cover staff and the agency because they weren\u2019t minding the store here. The agency never changed her cover status whatsoever.? She was never a deep NOC. Her neighbors knew it, his neighbors, their friends knew it. It was all over town. I told you that too at the beginning of this week. And now here you\u2019ve got Wilson himself saying, “My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.” Here\u2019s the rest of that bite.<\/line>BLITZER: She hadn\u2019t been a clandestine officer for some time before that. <\/line><\/p>\n

WILSON: That\u2019s not anything I can talk about. <\/line>RUSH: Hold it, hold it, hold it. Stonewall. Anybody — stonewall? Stonewall? We have Scott McClellan-like behavior here. He just goes out and says my wife was not a clandestine officer the day Bob Novak blew her identity. That\u2019s not anything I can talk about. I can\u2019t talk about that. Why not, Joe? You\u2019re talking about everything else and saying whatever you please. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite. <\/line><\/p>\n

WILSON: I\u2019ll go back to what I said earlier. The CIA believed that a possible crime had been committed and that\u2019s why they referred it to the Justice Department. She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in Vanity Fair appeared and I have every right to have the American public know who I am, and not to have myself defined by those who would write the sorts of things that are coming out, being spewed out of the mouths of the RNC. <\/line>RUSH: I guess he\u2019s talking about the RNC talking points yesterday which were nothing more than extracts from newspaper articles and the Senate Intelligence Committee report. The man\u2019s pathetic. But he\u2019s typical. He\u2019s typical of the hero the left thinks that they can rally around today. It\u2019s just amazing to watch, folks. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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