Re: Karl Rove Indicted?
I heard that Joe Wilson was telling people or A friend told me that Joe Wilson was telling people, but never have I seen an interview where a person has said that they were told by Joe Wilson or anyone else said that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA before she was outed. It is always second hand.<br />
Here you go. C&P<br /><br />Calling it "a potentially explosive development in the CIA leak <br />investigation," Fox News analysts Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes grilled <br />retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely tonight about his claim that Ambassador <br />Joseph Wilson "outed" his wife as a CIA agent in 2002, a year before her <br />identity was exposed by a political columnist. <br /><br /><br />"There's no personal vendetta here," Vallely told the pair, "I want to make <br />that clear. It all came about questioning why the special prosecutor did not <br />include in his inquiry bring under oath Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame or anybody <br />in the CIA as far as we know, so the question is out there to be answered." <br /><br /><br />The interview on Fox News was the first time Vallely addressed the <br />revelation on national television. A search of Lexis-Nexis newspaper <br />archives reveals major media outlets including the Associated Press, <br />Reuters, New York Times and Washington Post have not reported a single story <br />about Wilson's alleged 2002 disclosure. <br /><br /><br />As WorldNetDaily first reported over the weekend, Vallely claimed Wilson <br />revealed wife Valerie Plame's employment with the CIA to him in a casual <br />conversation in the Fox News "green room" the year before she allegedly was <br />"outed" by columnist Robert Novak. <br /><br /><br />"As we talked about our families, he did not say she was an agent, only that <br />she was employed by the [Central Intelligence] Agency," Vallely reiterated <br />on TV tonight. <br /><br /><br />Vallely's disclosure of Wilson's comments first came during ABC Radio's John <br />Batchelor show last Thursday night, and once WND interviewed the general <br />about his remarks, both Vallely and WND received demands for retraction and <br />legal threats from attorney Christopher Wolf, who represents Wilson. <br /><br /><br />"WorldNetDaily and I both were absolutely a little shocked on Saturday <br />evening when we got an e-mail from Joe Wilson's lawyers in Washington really <br />asking us to 100 percent retract our statements that were made on the radio <br />show," Vallely told Fox. "I'm not gonna back down on the fact we had a <br />casual conversation. The fact is we were there together, we didn't agree on <br />a lot of the things about the war, but we can agree to disagree." <br /><br /><br />When asked by Hannity if he knew if any other person was told by Wilson <br />himself that his wife worked for the agency, Vallely responded, "I have <br />friends back in Washington, D.C., [who] have told me that on the social <br />circuit back there, the State Department, the social circles, also in CIA <br />that it was very well known she worked for the agency. She was an analyst, <br />not a covert agent." <br /><br /><br />Widely known? <br /><br /><br />At least two veteran reporters say Valerie Plame's association with the CIA <br />was widely known, and a prominent analyst on military and political affairs, <br />Victor Davis Hanson, told WorldNetDaily his own green-room encounter with <br />Wilson revealed a man who is unusually free with personal information to <br />strangers. <br /><br /><br />Former Time magazine correspondent Hugh Sidey told the New York Sun in a <br />story published Sunday. "[Plame's] name was knocking around in the sub rosa <br />world we live in for a long time." <br /><br /><br />NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, in an appearance on CNBC's "Capitol Report," <br />Oct. 3, 2003, was asked how widely it was known in Washington that Wilson's <br />wife worked for the CIA. <br /><br /><br />"It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community <br />and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign <br />service community was the envoy to Niger," she said. <br /><br /><br />Hanson, a Hoover Institution fellow and National Review columnist, told WND <br />that like Vallely, he had a casual but unusually frank conversation with <br />Wilson in the Fox News green room before appearing on the air with the <br />ambassador some time, he believes, in early 2003. <br /><br /><br />But contrary to a report, Hanson said Wilson did not disclose his wife's CIA <br />employment. <br /><br /><br />Nevertheless, Hanson found the first-time encounter to be revealing, <br />describing Wilson as being very "indiscreet" and "unguarded" with personal <br />information, rambling in a "stream of consciousness" manner. <br /><br /><br />"It was almost as if he were bored; he was non-stop talkative and sort of <br />self-absorbed," Hanson said. <br /><br /><br />"When I left, I seemed to know a lot about Joe Wilson that he had <br />spontaneously offered to a stranger." <br /><br /><br />While Wilson did not tell Hanson anything of his wife's CIA connection, <br />Hanson was a witness to an intense 30-minute conversation between the <br />ambassador and The Nation magazine Editor David Corn, who apparently were <br />meeting for the first time. <br /><br /><br />Corn's July 16, 2003, column was the first published mention of Wilson's <br />claim that the White House intentionally had "outed" Plame as retaliation <br />for the Niger report. <br /><br /><br />Entitled "A White House Smear," Corn's column said, "Soon after Wilson <br />disclosed his trip in the media and made the White House look bad, the <br />payback came. Novak's July 14, 2003, column presented the back-story on <br />Wilson's mission and contained the following sentences: "Wilson never worked <br />for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons <br />of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's <br />wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate" the allegation. <br /><br /><br />Corn claims Wilson never confirmed whether his wife was a covert agent, yet <br /><br /><br />he writes: <br /><br /><br /> Without acknowledging whether she is a deep-cover CIA employee, Wilson <br />says, "Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every <br />relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire <br />career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames." <br />Corn concluded: "The Wilson smear was a thuggish act. Bush and his crew <br />abused and misused intelligence to make their case for war. Now there is <br />evidence Bushies used classified information and put the nation's <br />counter-proliferation efforts at risk merely to settle a score. It is a sign <br />that with this gang politics trumps national security." <br /><br />(Note: To view the "Hannity & Colmes" segment, click here.) <br />
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