Washington Post Blows the Lid off Wilson & Plame Liars

The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to
punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that
she was, in fact, covert.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602020_pf.html



Mr. Wilson was embraced by many because he was early in publicly charging
that the Bush administration had "twisted," if not invented, facts in making
the case for war against Iraq. In conversations with journalists or in a
July 6, 2003, op-ed, he claimed to have debunked evidence that Iraq was
seeking uranium from Niger; suggested that he had been dispatched by Mr.
Cheney to look into the matter; and alleged that his report had circulated
at the highest levels of the administration.

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently
established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was
recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along
with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr.
Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert
CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the
leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special
prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr.
Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In
fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy
secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House.
The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to
punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that
she was, in fact, covert.




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