Re: "Plame was a covert WMD agent for the CIA. No question about it."
Sure, at one time. Just not when her name, not her status as covert or not, was revealed by Novak. To protect operations she worked on in the past, she wouldn't have posed later at all, were they a concern, IMHO.
The leftist media seized and twisted Wilson's comments, and claimed he's said the Vice President had actually requested he go to Nigeria. Not so and Wilson didn't claim so.
While Wilson says he was well known to the CIA due to his former history and prior trip to Nigeria, still there exists notes showing that his wife did indeed at least, remind folks at CIA of his qualifications. CIA has always said it chose him, and surely that's right just the same. There is no contradiction between the notion that the CIA made the choice, and the information that Plame "recommended" him.
Re: "Sure he backed Kerry, any smart man would, but only after the Bush White House outed his wife and smeared him."
False, I'd have to say. While he voted for Bush in '92, and contributed to Bush/Cheney in 2000 because he felt they'd be better than McCain (he's since changed his mind), he also contributed to Gore's Campaign, and says he voted for Gore. He obviously too, in deference to your statement above, wrote claiming the Bush Administration twisted the evidence for war in Iraq before his wife's name was revealed.
In October of 2002, he wrote acknowledging that WMD's were the threat in Iraq. This was 8 months after his trip to Niger. Then came the 16 words in the Bush State of the Union, followed by his article blasting the Administration, followed by Novak's article.
Hope this helps.
Dan B. |
