Comments on: What Did Joseph C. Wilson Know and When Did He Know It?

By: Village Pendejo

Village Pendejo — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:36:13 +0000

I’m somewhat conspiracy minded, but it seems to me that Wilson said the Niger documents were forgeries before he could possibly have seen them. If that memory is correct it’s now possible we know how he knew they were forgeries. To get even more conspiratorial, maybe Plame had a French contact who told her about the memo’s, she wanted to discredit Bush, suggested Wilson and blah, blah, blah.

Far enough out there for you?

By: JorgXMcKie

JorgXMcKie — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:58:26 +0000

Um, labar, the sixteen words _didn’t_ include “Niger” but “Africa” which Wilson conveniently didn’t address. There is, surprisingly evidently even to some former ambassadors to countries in Africa, rather a lot of Africa, two or three of which produce “yellowcake” uranium. Even had Wilson been right about Niger (which he wasn’t) he was still wrong to attack Bush on the sixteen words unless he had checked out all of Africa. Oh, well, it’s not all that obvious to me that the LAT understands that there is more than one country in Africa, either.

By: The Kid

The Kid — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:58:19 +0000

It is good that Josh is blogging on this. I look forward to this thoughts on the following excerpt from the 9/16/04 WaPo: Four reporters have now testified at Libby's urging that he did not disclose Plame's name or identity to them. Link. Read the whole thing. "

By: JFB

JFB — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:54:10 +0000

Roger,

I don’t know where you get the idea that Joe Wilson is a “vassal of the Saudis”. He’s never served there.

If it’s because he has been part of a company that has dealing with the Saudis, then just what company could he possibly work for? Practically every Fortune 500 firm deals with the Saudis.

If it’s because he’s a member of Middle East Institute, then just what do you propose he be a member of? The Sons of Italy? The Koskiusko Society? His specialization was the Middle East. That’s what he knows and of course that’s what he’s going to hang around.

Wilson was a mediocre State Dept. officer who, because he had the “luck” of being Charge d’Affairs in Baghdad during Gulf War I, and doing all the requisite ass-kissing in the Dept., was rewarded with an Ambassadorship.

Slap him around all you like… I’ll hold him down for you. But kick him for what he did to deserve it.

By: labar

labar — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:16:33 +0000

Part 1.

The 911 commission concluded that Ambasador Wilson disputed in his book that his wife was responsible for the CIA picking him to go check out the uranium claim in Niger. She was.

She left a note for her boss that explained her husband has been the US Ambassador to counties in the Middle east, and he actually knew the Minister of Niger and could go if they needed him to.

Convienience is why they chose but he had never worked for any US intelligence agency and and sending him down their we now know was a huge mistake.

He goes down for two weeks, drinks mint tea and meets the minister and then comes back and reports to the CIA handler that there was no truth to it.

Then President Bush gives the SOTU speech, which includes those “16 words” that mention “British intelligence has recently learned that Iraq had sought large quanities of uranium from Niger”

Joe Wilson couldn’t believe it, and because he’s a honorable patriot, he decided he had to try to save the world from a madman, and he’d do it with an op-ed piece in the Wash Post “What I didn’t find in Niger” which basically accused President Bush of deliberately skewing, stretching and flat out lying about Iraq seeking uranium. But he didn’t know why? What is the evil Bush gang really wanting to invade Iraq for?

By: megapotamus

megapotamus — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:00:39 +0000

Roger, it’s good to see you posting this. I read it, I think at Powerline and I thought, fool perhaps that I am, that it would be on… well, not 60 Minutes but some big outlet. Nada. Let’s see, is PaveFrance now a more relevant news outlet than the alphabets? Whatever. I’m keeping this little factoid in my pocket. Somehow, no matter what comes in the election, I think I will have a use for it.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:29:49 +0000

Kinda makes you wonder if the French have some [shall we say] connections with a certain American anchor man.

hummmmmmmmm

By: TR Farmer

TR Farmer — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:47:52 +0000

Wilson was here in Santa Barbara over the weekend to speak at a fundraiser for Congresswoman Lois Capps. There was an interview and article about him in the SB News-Press, which is as left as papers get out here. It was interesting that the article was really very balanced. I almost fell out of my chair when I read it. It had all of the information on how Wilson had lied and misled in his op-eds and books and all Wilson could say about the Congressional and British intelligence reports was that they weren’t true.

Living in a radical college town in a Democratic state you develop a filter about most local things you read, so it was shocking to see this. I mean it has just been in the last month or so that there are more Kerry bumperstickers than Dean and Kucinich ones.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:07:14 +0000

I’m not sure I get your meaning.

By: David

David — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:38:06 +0000

I do hope your are wearing your official pajamas.