It's a sad day for America.
A little more than 2 years ago, Joseph Wilson wrote an Op/Ed piece for the New York Times. In it Wilson essentially asserted that President Bush lied in the State of the Union Address when Bush said;
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from
Africa"
Wilson claimed, ET AL, that VP Cheney sent Wilson to Niger to check out whether Iraq had attempted to obtain yellowcake. Wilson said he found no evidence to support those claims.
Soon thereafter the Washington Post & the New York Times used Wilson as a main source for stories that blasted the Bush Admin for misleading us into a war with Iraq. Wilson spoke publicly on numerous occasions & more allegations were added to the list. He denied repeatedly his wife had anything to do with him being sent to Niger. He continued to assert his trip to Nigeria found nothing.
Wilson also claimed that the Bush Admin relied on forged documents to make the Iraq uranium purchase claim. The alleged documents were classified & Joseph Wilson did not have the requisite clearance to be given access to the documents. This fact did not matter to the MSM. Nope, they churned out hundreds if not thousands of stories attacking the Bush Admin for using faulty information to go to war.
Then came Robert Novak's column that mentioned Wilson's wife Valerie Plame, a CIA Analyst had suggested her husband go to Niger.
Now the Bush Admin tried to get the truth out. They talked to the MSM about the facts. They said that Joseph Wilson was not being truthful about a lot of things. Among them was the fact that VP Cheney did not send Wilson to Niger.
Soon thereafter, the CIA referred a case to the Justice dept about this "leak". A special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald was assigned the case.
Meanwhile the Senate Intelligence Committee completed its report. Their findings irrefutably established that most of Joseph Wilson's assertions about the Bush Admin were treacherous lies.
They found that information from Wilson's trip actually bolstered the claim that Saddam sought uranium from Niger.
They Found that VP Cheney did not send Wilson on the trip.
They found that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame was directly involved in getting the assignment for her (left wing, anti-war) husband.
They found that Joseph Wilson could not have seen the forged documents & his account of them was false (and the Bush Admin did not rely on them).
Almost all of Wilson's public attacks on the Bush Admin were blatant lies. And they were directly related to a decision about going to war. Indeed, they were treacherous lies.
However, for some reason, the MSM & the DNC did not go public & denounce Joseph Wilson for his repeated acts of treachery. For the most part they went silent on the unanimous findings from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Instead they framed the the issue that the Bush Admin was seeking retribution against Wilson by "outing" his wife who was an undercover covert agent for the CIA. And they continued to repeat Joseph Wilson's now discredited lies as if they were still credible.
And today VP Cheney's senior advisor, Lewis Libby was indicted. No, he wasn't indicted for "outing" an undercover covert CIA agent. It seems that the investigation found no crime there. Instead it seems that Libby gave conflicting information to the Grand Jury.
And the MSM & DNC continue to claim that Bush misled America into war.
No doubt liberals everywhere are tittering about the "culture of corruption" in the White House.
Yes it's a sad day for America. They have no idea how badly they have been misled. Worse still, they have no idea who has misled them or where the real culture of corruption lies. |
