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"A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name."

2007-11-23 12:29:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.

2007-11-23 12:31:39 · update #1

The bipartisan panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.

The report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said.

The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him.

2007-11-23 12:36:11 · update #2

11 answers

Every Lib who has not a shred of logic in their bony head.
Plame & Wilson: media whores. You found the info rather easy. It's a shame the mass media could not or would not. Just another jab againt the Bush admin.
If Libs were the open minded people they claim to be, maybe some of us would listen to them, but their hatred clouds their crediblity.

2007-11-23 12:37:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 11 3

To the first "person" that answered this so far off.

Would you call 500 TONS OF YELLOW CAKE URANIUM.

There is also a good chance that she was already comprised by one of the traitorous CIA moles to the soviets and her own husband was known to introduce her as his "CIA WIFE".
And after 2 freakin years all they could come up with is a faulty memory

Edit;
knew I could find it.

she hadn't been a covert agent in something like eight years and had apparently been outed by Aldrich Ames [KGB agent].

2007-11-23 21:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by CFB 5 · 3 1

It's obvious you need to check some of your so called facts.
-Plame has been verified to being a convert CIA agent
-Plame recommended her her husband for the Niger trip since he was a past African ambassador but she had to power to send him, that was a CIA decision
-Cheney went against CIA advice and allowed the yellow cake (which had not been verified and which the CIA saw as extremely unreliable) info to be used in a presidential speech and was furious about Wilson op ed piece later (again confirmed by testimony and e-mails)
-Cooper from Time testified that he learned of Plames name from Rove at least a month prior to Novaks column (e-mails confirm this)
-Libby was indeed charged with crimes concerning his involvement in the leaking of Plames name. And testimony and documents clearly shows that the orginal leak came from Rove, Why charges were never pressed against Rove is highly suspect but it is interesting that right after the Libby verdict Rove's security clearance was revoked.

2007-11-23 21:24:31 · answer #3 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 2 4

So his claim that the Iraq is acquiring cake from Niger is false is just a lie?

It was no secret that his wife sent him there, to investigate the claim of Iraq intel's which subsequently used to justify the war in Iraq but proven false by Mr. Wilson.

My guess he was chosen by wife to Niger because he had previous experiences/contacts in that country to investigate the claim quickly, and she trusts her husband ?

Since most of all the parties involved are stonewalling the investigations and claiming executive previlige, there is not much you could do, especially if the charge goes up all the way to the president. Libby was charged for lying under oath in his statements and senteced to serve in jail until bush commuted his term.

If libby has nothing to hide, why did he lie which lead to his indictment?

2007-11-23 21:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by BrushPicks 5 · 1 5

Our President Bush was threatened by this covert cabal in the CIA and he had to lash out and punish them. Our President Bush took executive action as the War President to out those unlawful domestic enemy combatants.

2007-11-23 20:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 5

I'll bet I can find some brainwashed liberals still believe their proven lies.

2007-11-23 20:38:24 · answer #6 · answered by charbatch 3 · 5 2

The only liars in this case, unfortunately, is the Republican Administration to cover up their actions. There is a book coming out in April by Scott McClellan that exposes the truth about the situation and state that Bush, Cheney, Libby and Rove were the masterminds in exposing a CIA Agent to get even with her husband for telling the truth about the lies that got us into the Iraq War and killed 4,000 of our young people.

2007-11-23 20:41:55 · answer #7 · answered by madisonian51 4 · 3 9

All the other proven liars.

2007-11-23 20:38:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

Hillary, obama, all liberals.

2007-11-23 20:43:53 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 5 1

Hmmmm....... what does the "scooter" have to say about all this....... I would be interested

2007-11-23 21:33:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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