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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (11911)7/19/2005 1:12:16 AM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (50) of 35834
 
         Who’s Really Endangering National Security?
-- Alexander K. McClure
PoliPundit.com

One way that Republicans could really handle the present media frenzy on the Rove incident is to make Joe Wilson the issue.

We couldn’t lose if we did. The man is, to use the famous phrase, “a congenital liar.”

Wilson told Nicholas Kristof sometime in early May of 2003 that the Vice President had sent him to Niger to determine whether Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase yellow case. In reality, the Vice President was not aware that Wilson was being sent on any such mission, nor had he requested one.

As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported, “The Central Intelligence Agency should have told the Vice President and other senior policymakers that it had sent someone to Niger to look into the alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal and it should have briefed the Vice President on the former ambassador’s findings.”

Of course, as we have learned later, it was Wilson’s wife who had him sent on the mission. But Wilson didn’t start lying then. He kept lying. Indeed, when he said the documents proving the alleged deal were forged, Wilson was again stretching the limits of reality.

From the Intelligence Committee report: “Committee Staff Asked How The Former Ambassador Could Have Come To The Conclusion That The ‘Dates Were Wrong And The Names Were Wrong’ When He Had Never Seen The CIA Reports And Had No Knowledge Of What Names And Dates Were In The Reports.” “"[W]hen Asked How He ‘Knew’ That The Intelligence Community Had Rejected The Possibility Of A Niger-Iraq Uranium Deal … [Wilson] Told Committee Staff That His Assertion [That There Was No Deal] May Have Involved ‘A Little Literary Flair.’”

Not only do we have a blatant case of nepotism related to a serious national security issue, but we have a man who is supposed to be analyzing information that deals with a dire threat to the world deliberately lying about who sent him and admitting that he used some “literary flair?” When he came home, Wilson continued to lie to various newspaper reporters about his findings.

For more information on the Senate Intelligence Committtee Report, see here.
globalsecurity.org

Suffice it to say that Democrats could be made to look like real hypocrites if Republicans push this angle of the story hard.

polipundit.com
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