Plame: Government Betrayed Her Trust

That headline is more full of chutzpah than almost any headline I've ever seen. I wish I could say it was surprising but it isn't.

Plame told a news conference that "I and my former colleagues trusted the government to protect us in our jobs" and said it "betrayed that trust. I'd much rather be continuing my career as a public servant than as a plaintiff in a lawsuit."

Mrs. Wilson, the government that you're blaming wouldn't have had anything to complain about had your doting hubby signed a nondisclosure agreement before heading over to Niger. Furthermore, they wouldn't have been upset had Hubby not mischaracterized President Bush's 'Sixteen Words'. In his NY Times op-ed, Mr. Wilson said that he found no proof that Iraq had purchased uranium in Niger, thereby 'proving' that the President twisted intelligence to take us to war. The problem for Mr. Wilson is that President Bush's 'Sixteen Words' spoke about a British intelligence report saying that Iraq had looked into buying uranium in AFRICA.

Said Wilson: "We are under no illusions about how tough this fight will be. But we believe the time has come to hold those who use their official positions to exact personal revenge accountable and responsible for their actions."

Mr. Wilson's statement is laughable. It's time we held liars like him accountable for lying to improve their prefered candidate's chances of winning the presidency. Those of us who care about Mr. Wilson's diatribe note that he wrote this op-ed while he was supportive of the Kerry campaign. It isn't unreasonable to hypothesize that this was a hit piece to cut down President Bush.

His wife said they decided to pursue the lawsuit with "heavy hearts."

That's as big a whopper as I've seen in ages. The Wilsons had dropped out of the spotlight, the worst thing that could happen to these headline-craving people. (If you don't buy the fact that they're headline-craving people, check out Gatway Pundit's post on the "sheer hell that the Wilsons have been through.) Isn't it interesting that they filed the lawsuit the same day that they announce a new book deal? Remember that Wilson's book, "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir" jumped of the shelves by the dozens.

At Friday's news conference, Wilson noted he had written an op-ed criticizing the administration's defense of going to war in Iraq, saying "I exercised my civil duty to hold my government to account. This attack was based on lies and disinformation and it included the compromise of Valerie's identity," he added. "I have confidence in the American system of justice and this suit is about the pursuit of justice."

As I've noted, Wilson's op-ed was a bunch of BS. Before anyone suggests that I'm alone in thinking that, I'll simply refer them to FactCheck.org's analysis, which thoroughly refutes many of Mr. Wilson's claims. Here's Bush's sixteen words:

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Here's part of Factcheck's analysis:

Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush's 16 words a "lie", supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger.

Wednesday night on Special Report's roundtable, Mara Liasson let the cat out of the bag on this lawsuit's mission: to find something embarassing during the discovery phase of the lawsuit. Nobody on the roundtable took the lawsuit seriously at all.

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Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 4:07 PM

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