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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (19102)	4/29/2004 12:42:29 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Haven't heard anything about the Plame case in a long time...being swept under the carpet until after November? Orca

To: American Spirit who wrote (19102)	4/29/2004 12:46:02 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Cheney did it.

To: American Spirit who wrote (19102)	4/29/2004 12:49:51 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The Bush administration is bracing itself for the latest memoir by a former insider. Joe Wilson, a former ambassador, will this week reveal the name of the government official who "outed" his wife - revealing her identity as a CIA operative in apparent revenge for his role in proving the White House made false claims about Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. But in what has increasingly becoming the habit during Mr Bush's presidency, Mr Wilson will not make his claims on television, at a press conference or even in a newspaper column but between the covers of a "must-read" book. His memoir, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, is published tomorrow. "Last summer, after President Bush repeated the false claim in his State of the Union address, Mr Wilson revealed his trip to Niger and his conclusion to the Independent on Sunday and then in a signed op-ed piece in the New York Times". But it is the what happened next that is gripping Washington. After Mr Wilson went public, the White House leaked to the right-wing newspaper columnist, Bob Novak, that the ambassador's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative and that she may have suggested the mission. Both Mr Wilson and the CIA were furious, claiming that Ms Plame had been compromised and her career severely damaged. Leaking the identity of a CIA operative is a federal offence and the FBI, headed by an outside prosecutor, has for several months been conducting an investigation and has put together a grand jury to consider evidence and hear from witnesses. news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=516301