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Don't Mess With Bush
On July 6, 2003, the Tennessean ran a Washington Post article on Joseph C. Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a retired United States ambassador who went to Niger in early 2002 and debunked claims that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium for use in nuclear weapons. Wilson stated that Vice President Dick Cheney's office was interested in the truth of the allegations that Iraq was obtaining uranium. Wilson said, "It really comes down to the administration misrepresenting the facts on an issue that was a fundamental justification for going to war. It begs the question, what else are they lying about?" He reported his findings (no nuclear weapons or any attempt to obtain any) in 2002.
July 23, 2003, again in the Tennessean: A conservative Washington columnist cited "two senior administration officials" when he named Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson's wife, as an undercover agent in the department on weapons of mass destruction issues. Her cover is now blown. This announcement will influence all her future assignments, compromise an entire career of networks, relationships, and operations, and put at risk Wilson, Plame and any or all of her contacts. Wilson said of the incident, "...what it really is is an attempt to keep anybody else from coming forward." He also said, "It's a shot across the bow to these people, that if you talk we'll take your family and drag them through the mud, as well." Robert Novak, the columnist that released Plame's name, said that his sources came to him with this information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. Novak also said that it was Plame that suggested sending her husband to Niger, according to the same "two senior administration officials" that gave him her name.
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