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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
One mo' time - since we've seemed to lose sight of how this whole thing transpired.
1) When Joe Wilson came out swinging as the "retired diplomat who had reported negatively to the CIA in 2002 on alleged Iraq efforts to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger" it was widely questioned why (A) an Al Gore supporter, (b) an avid opponent of the war and (c) a former member of Clinton's NSC would be given such a sensitive assignment by the CIA and unbeknownst to Tenet.
2) Lo and behold, we find out that he got the assignment on the sole recommendation of his wife. Thus, she presented him with a grand opportunity to make a spectacle of himself.
His "motive" for slanting the report is clear - he has changed his stance from public-servant to anti-Bush partisan hack.
The question was and is one of access.
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How fascinating -- he has a motive for slanting the report. Pity no one figured that out before giving him the assignment.... or maybe the motive just didn't exist then.
Nah, that would be silly. He MUST have ALWAYS had a motive. The CIA just overlooked it. Of course, that would suggest that maybe, just maybe, he was the one who was wrong about the supposed uranium buy.... but no, that didn't happen either.
And what about the findings he made, or claimed to have made, has been debunked? You offered this as one reason for outing his wife. But you've provided no support.
And what, finally, about Ty's point -- one that you agreed with -- that if this was above-board and principled, whoever did it would just say so? You agree with that, yet seem to ignore it.
Finally, you seem to be calling Wilson a liar because he didn't identify his wife's position as the (supposed) reason he was given the job. Fascinating theory. Yet doing that, of course, would have meant exposing his wife as a CIA operative. So, either he does that, or the Admin does it to punish him for not doing it in the first place?
So, simple question: What was the principled reason for identifying his wife as a CIA operative? Do you think that was a decent, legal, moral, ethical thing to do?
