Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame exposed
If you're a regular here at the Real Republican, you've heard my commentary on the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson issue.Myself and many others from the right have been quite vocal in our doubts of the credibility of Mr. Joe Wilson with his animosity towards the Bush administration. We questioned his false claims from Niger. We questioned his motives. We questioned the covert level of his CIA wife. And we certainly questioned the conspiracy theorists out there who quickly claimed Plame's identity was leaked as part of a vast right-wing/Karl Rove plan to punish the snake and his wife.
After all is said and done, the Washington Post yesterday said everything we've been telling you. As Michelle Malkin said in her post, this editorial "should be framed and hung in the Newseum for posterity."
Read and enjoy...
End of an Affair It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband. Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously. |