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To: LindyBill who wrote (174522)7/23/2006 10:05:47 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (2) of 794001
 
EC: …. I thought that John was done. John, if you’re going to use strong languages like liar, you should be sure what you’re saying is accurate. And in this instance, the CIA verified that Joseph Wilson was not sent because of any suggestion, or even with the knowledge of Valerie Plame Wilson. She had absolutely nothing to do with why Joseph Wilson was sent to Africa and to Iraq to see whether or not there was the purchasing of uranium.

Wow- the senate intelligence report of July 2004 certainly takes a different view than this.

intelligence.senate.gov

Read pages 36.39 and 57. "Former Ambassador" refers to Wilson.

On p. 39 it says " The former ambassador was selected for the 1999 trip after his wife mentioned to her superiors that her husband was planning a business trip to Niger in the near future and might be willing to use his contacts in the region to (redacted)..."

Then it says on p. 40 that a meeting was called in Febr 2002 at the behest of the former ambassador's wife to use his contacts to investigate whether there had been sales of uranium by Niger to Iraq.
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