Reply #12: here are some of the other mentions [View All]

anyone have the Daily Show link--do they archive interviews?


this is where it started: the original Novak article-

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak14.html

"Wilson's mission was created after an early 2002 report by the Italian intelligence service about attempted uranium purchases from Niger, derived from forged documents prepared by what the CIA calls a ''con man.'' This misinformation spread through the U.S. government. The White House, State Department and Pentagon asked the CIA to look into it.

That's where Joe Wilson came in. His first public note had come in 1991 after 15 years as a Foreign Service officer when, as U.S. charge in Baghdad, he risked his life to shelter in the embassy 800 Americans from Saddam Hussein's wrath. My partner Rowland Evans reported from the Iraqi capital in our column that Wilson showed ''the stuff of heroism.'' The next year, President George H.W. Bush named him ambassador to Gabon, and President Bill Clinton put him in charge of African affairs at the National Security Council until his retirement in 1998.

Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. ''I will not answer any question about my wife,'' Wilson told me."

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newsday reported on this

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia223383072jul22,0,1332639.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines


Wilson and a retired CIA official said yesterday that the "senior administration officials" who named Plame had, if their description of her employment was accurate, violated the law and may have endangered her career and possibly the lives of her contacts in foreign countries. Plame could not be reached for comment.
"When it gets to the point of an administration official acting to do career damage, and possibly actually endanger someone, that's mean, that's petty, it's irresponsible, and it ought to be sanctioned," said Frank Anderson, former CIA Near East Division chief.
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http://thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=823

"The sources for Novak's assertion about Wilson's wife appear to be "two senior administration officials." If so, a pair of top Bush officials told a reporter the name of a CIA operative who apparently has worked under what's known as "nonofficial cover" and who has had the dicey and difficult mission of tracking parties trying to buy or sell weapons of mass destruction or WMD material. If Wilson's wife is such a person--and the CIA is unlikely to have many employees like her--her career has been destroyed by the Bush administration. (Assuming she did not tell friends and family about her real job, these Bush officials have also damaged her personal life.) Without acknowledging whether she is a deep-cover CIA employee, Wilson says, "Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames."

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Time also reported-

A War on Wilson?
Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection 
By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,465270,00.html



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Wilson on c-span

http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=Iraq&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=US_Iraq&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=

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identities protection act

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/CIA/50usc421.htm

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story discussed elsewhere

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27051

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/sperry/2003/07/22

"... Mentioning Plame served no purpose other than to put an end to her career. Typical of the chatter on the right, the American Daily picked up on Novak's story last Thursday as well, and spared no punches in discrediting the Ambassador.


...Back in 1975, conservatives understood that "outing" CIA operatives was treason, and they ripped into Senator Frank Church, blaming the Church Committee for identifying Richard Welch, the CIA Station Chief in Athens, who was subsequently assassinated by the 17 November Greek terrorist organization. This matter is no different, and, frankly, the stench of partisanship makes it objectively much worse. Heads should roll.

So let's get this straight: two senior Bush administration officials allegedly undermine our national security by publicly identifying a CIA intelligence officer whose specialty is WMD. In doing so, they betray our personal safety and they betray the CIA. The American media, with the exception of David Corn's column in "The Nation," however, believes that such a story doesn't have "news value." But full court press coverage, with multiple articles on Kobe Bryant's "little problem," is worthy of page one treatment.

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background-

Republicans accused Church of outing a CIA agent. Later the charges were refuted...back then I guess it mattered? --even if they were wrong about blaming Church.

http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/mooney-c.html