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So Much For The "White House Conspiracy"

Robert Novak describes the "attack on Joe Wilson":

Armitage was giving me high-level insider gossip, unusual in a first meeting. About halfway through our session, I brought up Bush's sixteen words. What Armitage told me generally confirmed what I had learned from sources the previous day while I was reporting for the Fran Townsend column.

I then asked Armitage a question that had been puzzling me but, for the sake of my future peace of mind, would better have been left unasked.

Why would the CIA send Joseph Wilson, not an expert in nuclear proliferation and with no intelligence experience, on the mission to Niger?

"Well," Armitage replied, "you know his wife works at CIA, and she suggested that he be sent to Niger." "His wife works at CIA?" I asked. "Yeah, in counterproliferation."

He mentioned her first name, Valerie. Armitage smiled and said: "That's real Evans and Novak, isn't it?" I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. I interpreted that as meaning Armitage expected to see the item published in my column.

The exchange about Wilson's wife lasted no more than sixty seconds.

The notion that Wilson was being "punished" by "outing" his wife never made any sense, except to the Bush deranged. And as the article notes, Fitzgerald knew this before he ever deposed Libby, and yet decided to go on his fishing expedition anyway.

Posted by Rand Simberg at July 09, 2007 05:15 AM
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Once you appoint a prosecutor, you should expect him to act like one. The problem is the desire to appoint prosecutors.

Collectively we seem to believe that law will solve problems that it is not good at solving.

If you believe in the rule of law you should be against using laws when they won't work. That degrades respect for the law. That is bad for the rule of law.

Yours,
Wince

Posted by Wince and Nod at July 9, 2007 08:00 AM

Some victims. The Wilsons have gained tremendously from this affair. The people who supposedly persecuted them have only suffered.

Posted by Jonathan at July 9, 2007 08:40 AM

The Wilsons are doing the same as Michael Moore; milking the BDS community for as much money as they can get.

Posted by Habitat Hermit at July 9, 2007 04:28 PM


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