White House strikes at Freedom again...and against the EX embassador TO IRAQ's wife.....
because he has been somewhat of a national hero for speaking up against the LIES OF WAR.....
the GOVERNMENT BLOWS HIS WIFE'S COVER>>>>A CIA AGENT!!!!
They are really SICK WITH POWER
White House Striking Back?
Former Ambassador Charges Mudslinging Over Statements
By Andrea Mitchell
NBC NEWS
Monday 21 July 2003
WASHINGTON - They were just 16 words in the State of the Union address - words that we
now know were misleading. And this man, retired career diplomat Joe Wilson tried to warn the
administration of just that nearly a year before the speech.
Now in an NBC News exclusive, Wilson says his family is the subject of a smear campaign.
Wilson tells NBC News the White House deliberately leaked his wife's identity as a covert CIA
operative, damaging her future career and compromising past missions after he criticized the
administration on "Meet the Press" and in the New York Times.
He told me, "It's a shot across the bow to those who might step forward, those unnamed
analysts who said they were pressured by the White House for example would think twice about
having their own families names being dragged through this particular mud."
The White House strongly denies the charge. In fact, Wilson was only one of three experts who
warned the administration a year before the State of the Union that the Niger information didn't
check out.
As previously reported on NBC News, then-Ambassador to Niger Barbro Owens-Fitzpatrick
reported it was false in February 2002. So did four-star Marine Gen. Carlton Fulford two months
later. So the warnings came to the White House more than a year before the State of the Union.
Wilson reached his judgment without ever seeing the forged documents that led to the charge.
We showed him the documents for the first time Monday: I asked, "This is the first you are
seeing the documents?" Wilson answered, "Yes. This was never a legitimate piece of
information."
ITALIAN CONNECTION
And in their first TV interview Monday, the Italian journalists who first gave the documents to the
U.S. Embassy in Rome tell NBC News the documents didn't even pass an amateur's test. "The
smell of these documents, since the beginning, I was not convinced," says Carlo Rosell. So, the
Italian magazine never printed the Niger story.
But the CIA wasn't as careful. NBC News has learned that it sent at least two secret memos to
the White House only days before the State of the Union recycling the Niger charge - even
though the agency knew it was false.
NBC News has learned one memo said "fragmentary reporting" on the Iraqi attempts to procure
uranium from Africa is "another sign of reconstitution of a nuclear program."
POLITICAL FALLOUT
The Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating. But the committee itself is at war:
Republicans blame the CIA. Democrats say the White House is ultimately responsible.
Monday night the White House tells NBC News these memos show that the CIA did not do
enough to protect the president - more ammunition in what is becoming a war between the White
House National Security Council and the CIA.
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