Alerted by a commenter (h/t Big Joe), this interesting article appeared yesterday in World Net Daily:
Analyst says Wilson 'outed' wife in 2002 Disclosed in casual conversations a year before Novak column
"A retired Army general says the man at the center of the CIA leak controversy, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, revealed his wife Valerie Plame's employment with the agency in a casual conversation more than a year before she allegedly was "outed" by the White House through a columnist.
Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.
Vallely and Wilson both were contracted by Fox News to discuss the war on terror as the U.S. faced off with Iraq in the run-up to the spring 2003 invasion.
Vallely says, according to his recollection, Wilson mentioned his wife's job in the spring of 2002 – more than a year before Robert Novak's July 14, 2003, column identified her, citing senior administration officials, as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction."
"He was rather open about his wife working at the CIA," said Vallely, who retired in 1991 as the Army's deputy commanding general in the Pacific."
Now according to WND, Joe and his attorney are demanding a retraction via "email":
"WASHINGTON – Ambassador Joseph Wilson's attorney is demanding Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely retract a statement he made to WND that the man at the center of the CIA leak case "outed" his own wife as a CIA employee in conversations more than a year before her identity was revealed in a syndicated column.
A demand letter was sent by Christopher Wolf, partner at Proskauer Rose LLP and counsel for Wilson, to both Vallely and WND tonight.
It disputes Vallely's claim that Wilson mentioned Valerie Plame's status with the CIA in conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington as they waited to appear as analysts.
"As you know, that assertion and the claim that Ambassador Wilson revealed to you or to anyone that his wife worked for the CIA is patently false, and subjects you and anyone publishing your statements to legal liability," states the letter.
It continues: "We are writing to demand that you immediately retract the assertion attributed to you and to insist that you stop making the false allegation. In addition, we request that you identify all persons or entitites (sic) to whom you made any claim that Ambassador Wilson revealed his wife's employment at the CIA to you."
The e-mail received by WND included earlier comments by Wilson to his attorney.
"This is slanderous," Wilson wrote. "I never appeared on tv before at least July 2002 and only saw him maybe twice in the green room at FOX. Vallely is a retired general and this is a bald faced lie. Can we sue? This is not he said/he said, since I never laid eyes on him till several months after he alleges I spoke to him about my wife."
Ok, apart from my first though that possibly a Kos Kid sent this email to WND and Vallely - what lawyer sends a demand via email? Nevertheless, I am familiar with General Vallely and he is an upright guy. If I had to toss a coin between him and proven liar Joe Wilson on an honesty bet, Joe's at a huge disadvantage.
But isn't this what we have been told? Cliff May, in "Spy Games", said, "who didn't know?".
NBC's Andrea Mitchell said on a CNBC broadcast at the time: "It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. So a number of us began to pick up on that. But frankly I wasn't aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it."
Indeed, even our friends the VIPS wrote in this article in Common Dreams, "Joseph Wilson’s mission to Niger in February 2002, when he determined that the Iraq-Niger report was a con-job. Wilson’s findings were duly reported to all concerned in early March 2002. And, if she somehow missed that report, the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff on May 6 recounted chapter and verse on Wilson’s mission, and the story remained the talk of the town in the weeks that followed."
'In the weeks that followed the talk of the town!"
Yeah, and this article published on the same day as Novak's article no less.Forget the fact that Wilson knew the documents were a con job when there was no way he could have known it, as they weren't seen for eight months afterward.
Who is this guy jiving with this kosmik debri? The only thing Ms. Plame didn't have was a billboard and her own Sitcom. Hell, didn't I see a t-shirt, "Free Valerie"...or was that "Bambi"?.....
AJ Strata with more.
Filed under: judith miller valerie plame karl rove Valerie Plame PlameGate john hannahcheney libbyjoe wilson
Subscribe by Email
Follow Updates Articles from This Blog via Email
No Comments