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Headlines for September 17, 2003
- Senate Votes 55-40 to Block FCC Media Rules
- U.S. Vetoes UN Resolution Aimed To Protect Arafat
- Preparation for Hurricane Hindered By Iraq Occupation
- U.S. Delays Releasing Iraq WMD Report
- Senate Rejects Ban on Nuclear Weapons Tests
- U.S. To Detain All Immigrants Ordered Deported
Where is the Government Investigation Into Who in
the White House Outted Joseph Wilson’s Wife as an Alleged
CIA Operative?
Wilson is the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq who traveled
to Niger on a CIA-sponsored trip and and found no link between
Iraq and Niger. After he speaks out the press reports senior
administration officials outting his wife as an alleged CIA
operative. Was this in retaliation to his speaking out on
Iraq?
Yesterday, we took a look at Vice President Dick Cheney’s
use of intelligence. Or rather, lack of intelligence as he
repeated many allegations about Iraq that have been proven
false over the past two years.
One of these allegations is that Saddam Hussein attempted
to acquire uranium from Niger. Well yesterday, we interviewed
Joe Wilson the former acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq. The
CIA sent Wilson to investigate the uranium allegation and
found it highly unlikely. Despite this, the uranium/Niger
claim became a key piece of the administration’s justification
for the war and President Bush included it in his State of
the Union address in January.
Seven months later, Wilson went public. In a New York Times
Op-Ed he said he had told the CIA long before the president's
January speech that the uranium claims were fraudulent.
A week later, conservative columnist Robert Novak wrote a
column in which he cited two senior administration officials
and said that Wilson's wife was a CIA operative. Time Magazine
and NewsDay also cited administration officials and repeated
this claim. Was this retaliation against Wilson for stepping
forward? It is in fact a felony to blow the cover of a covert
operative.
A number of senators including Hillary Clinton and Charles
Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Congress member
Henry Waxman and others have called for an investigation into
who “burned” Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame,
and blew her cover.
We called the White House to see if they were conducting
an investigation. They said to call the FBI. We called the
FBI said they were looking into it but they would not yet
classify it as an investigation.
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson, speaking in at a forum in Seattle,
Washington on August 22, 2003.
- White House Press Conference, September 16, 2003 - Spokesperson
Scott McCllelan being questioned about Joseph Wilson’s
wife being outted. McClellan is evasive and never outright
denies the charge.
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson, speaking on Democracy Now!
on September 16, 2003.
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst.
- David MacMichael, former CIA analyst.
“The Crazies Are Back”: Bush Sr.’s
CIA Briefer Discusses How Wolfowitz & Allies Falsely Led
the U.S. To War
Former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and David MacMichael accuse
President Bush of waging the Iraq war based on a series of
lies, discuss the unprecedented pressure that VP Dick Cheney
put on the CIA before the invasion and call on CIA analysts
and agents to come forward with information that will reveal
the lies of the Bush administration. [Includes
transcript]
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