Rove was the source of the Plame leak... so it appears

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Two-year old assertions by former ambassador Joseph Wilson regarding Iraq and uranium, which lie at the heart of the controversy over who at the White House identified a covert U.S. operative, have held up in the face of attacks by supporters of presidential adviser Karl Rove.

The main points of Wilson's article have largely been substantiated by a Senate committee as well as U.S. and United Nations weapons inspectors. A day after Wilson's piece was published, the White House acknowledged that a claim Bush made in his January 2003 state of the union address that Iraq tried to buy "significant quantities of uranium from Africa"' could not be verified and shouldn't have been included in the speech.

Republicans are attempting to defend Rove by discrediting Wilson, saying the former ambassador misled the public about why he was sent to Niger and what he found there.

Bush supporters such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich contend that Wilson lied in claiming that Vice President Dick Cheney dispatched him on the mission to Niger. That echoes a Republican National Committee talking-points memo sent to party officials.

Wilson never said that Cheney sent him, only that the vice president's office had questions about an intelligence report that referred to the sale of uranium yellowcake to Iraq from Niger. Wilson, in his New York Times article, said CIA officials were informed of Cheney's questions.

"The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office," Wilson wrote.

Published on Sunday, July 6, 2003 by the New York Times
What I Didn't Find in Africa
by Joseph C. Wilson 4th

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Joseph C. Wilson 4th, United States ambassador to Gabon from 1992 to 1995, is an international business consultant.

Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

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The part I had in mind:

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Rove and other White House officials described to the FBI what sources characterized as an aggressive campaign to discredit Wilson through the leaking and disseminating of derogatory information regarding him and his wife to the press, utilizing proxies such as conservative interest groups and the Republican National Committee to achieve those ends, and distributing talking points to allies of the administration on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Rove is said to have named at least six other administration officials who were involved in the effort to discredit Wilson.

Kuvasz' post is long, but has good stuff about the "substantive role" (or lack thereof), as well.

Let's not play the game of the right here about Wilson's credential, ... He literally saved lives during Desert Storm as acting ambassador to Iraq ....

Did he actually ever submit a report? Does anyone have a link to it?

Tico:

Not too sure exactly about the meaning of your inference.

Hello Cicerone.

While the awol story was much of an item, it was a useless one for Bush wasn't awol. He wasn't absent without leave or permission. It was worse: he used everything he knew to be hidden in plain site, at tax payer's expense. I say (and I served in Vietnam not as a draftee) that what he was: a political coward wanting some military service on his record but no exposure whatsoever to anything warlike. I guess his father must still to this day be ashamed of him given his personal military record although as any dad he would never admit it.

I would respect him more had he just did what most senior members in his administration did: deferment. Instead we paid quite a lot of money for him to become a pilot. And it was only but a waste of money for he made sure to never fly again and stay in hiding. Quite the expert con man at an early age. At the time he was called "Texas Soufflé". A lot of air. Too bad Texas had to be driven in this matter, they surely didn't deserve that.

McGentrix wrote:

Did he actually ever submit a report? Does anyone have a link to it?

pngirouard posted it. It was called "What I Didn't Find in Africa," and was published on Sunday, July 6, 2003, in the New York Times. I suppose the CIA got their money's worth.