Not only was former ambassador Joseph Wilson a stooge for the left, he is also a liar or blissfully ignorant. He has maintained that his wife's role as a CIA operative played no part in his assignment to travel to Niger to "investigate" the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger. His wife is Valerie Plame, a former undercover operative.
His assertions are countered by the Senate intelligence report on Iraq, discussed in this article. Here's the crux:
The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.
Wilson has asserted that his wife was not involved in the decision to send him to Niger.
"Valerie had nothing to do with the matter," Wilson wrote in a memoir published this year. "She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip."
Hmm. Wilson's self-serving autobiography designed to line his own coffers or an actual memo by Plame at the time she suggested his name -- you make the call.
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