Could someone show me who sent Wilson on his trip?

Sorry, I feel dumb because I can't find the link that shows that it wasn't Plame. Could someone help me out with a link?

the law and are trying to deflect attention away from themselves. Even if Wilson is the biggest liar in the world they still broke the law.

So I needed a link to have handy.

It's amazing how many lies have been spread about this case if you think about it.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200510280009

CNN's Ensor: "Very high intelligence officials" say suggestion "that Valerie Plame suggested her husband be sent to Niger ... just isn't true"


On CNN's October 28 breaking-news coverage of the indictment of vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges related to the investigation of the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, CNN national security correspondent David Ensor challenged the suggestion that Plame "suggested her husband be sent to Niger" to investigate a possible deal to sell uranium to Iraq. Ensor reported that he had "talked to very high intelligence officials who say that just isn't true." Ensor then reported that the "very high intelligence officials" said that "it was senior officers above her who had the idea of sending Ambassador Wilson" based on his past experience in Niger and as an ambassador elsewhere in Africa. Ensor noted that, according to his sources, Plame subsequently responded positively to the suggestion in an e-mail "to higher-ups at the CIA who suggested that Joe Wilson be sent.

Media Matters for America has documented numerous examples of reporters and commentators claiming that Plame was responsible for Wilson being sent to Niger........

:D

I feel bad sometimes having to ask people these things. I think it's about time I get a star so I won't have to do that anymore. :)

You'll get all the information you need.

Claims That Plame Sent Wilson To Niger Was Untrue According to The CIA. "Over the past months, however, the CIA has maintained that Wilson was chosen for the trip by senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counter proliferation division (CPD) - not by his wife - largely because he had handled a similar agency inquiry in Niger in 1999. On that trip, Plame, who worked in that division, had suggested him because he was planning to go there, according to Wilson and the Senate committee report."

http://www.democrats.org/a/p/day_27_claims_that_plame_sent_wilson_to_niger_was_untrue_according_to_the_cia.html

It's a quote from the WP.

him. It's important to know the exact chain of events to debunk the right wing talking points.

them, we aid them in their claim that it IS relevant.

Why dignify the question with a response?

It's important to rebut articles that are giving out false information! I guess Larry Johnson should just go home and leave all the lies unchecked. Let Ann Coulter say whatever she wants. That would be great for our Country.

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incorrect talking points are abundant. 'Wilson has no credibility, is a liar, claims that he was sent by Cheney, wrote an ambiguous initial report, his wife really sent him,' and on and on. These lies are being repeated as I type! I just heard Andrea Mitchell speak about Wilson's questionable credibility, and Niger report ambiguity, and not one of the panel (Russert, Gregory aand others) refuted what she said...So, to a lot of people that makes her assertions true.

edited to add: I hope you weren't one of the many who accused Kerry of not defending himself promptly enough against the Swift Boat liers for Falsehood! If you did, you should examine your own hypocrisy.

out to you.

needs chilling out???

Somebody needs to get back on their medication PDQ. :crazy: :wtf:
The complete lack of logic by certain posters amazes me....

I just think people are getting WAY too het up over trying to debunk the "Valerie sent Wilson" story.......

It is written that a wife may not ask her husband to do work. If she does, then the husband must pretend to do the work.

but not Valerie...

"Apart from being the conduit of a message from a colleague in her office asking if I would be willing to have a conversation about Niger's uranium industry, Valerie had nothing to do with the matter. Though she worked on weapons of mass destruction issues, she was not at the meeting I attended where the subject of Niger's uranium was discussed, when the possibility of my actually traveling to the country was broached. She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip."

Joesph Wilson, The Politics of Truth, p. 5

They don't take anything Wilson says seriously, although I have yet to have been shown evidence of one single lie Joseph Wilson has made. Maybe he has, but I haven't seen it.

at least he knows the circumstances. I read that he was present when Cheney told him or some other CIA person that he (Cheney) wanted to know if the Niger yellow cake story was for real. The CIA person (who may have been Johnson himself) took Cheney at his word and contacted Wilson about it. So Wilson's claim that the CIA had asked him to go based on a request from Cheney's "office" is accurate.

This lie that keeps being repeated that Wilson said the "Cheney" sent him is baloney. I don't think Wilson ever said that Cheney himself sent him or contacted him. I could be wrong, but if he did happen to say Cheney, he quickly corrected himself. Fitz's indictment also phrases it properly though I don't have it in front of me at the moment to check for exact phraseology.

Try this link: http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/13/04720/9340

If that one isn't enough just google some combination of Larry Johnson, yellow cake, Wilson, Niger, etc. and you'll find all you need I think.

I just realized that there are several other posts so this might be a dupe. Sorry if it is. Too careless I guess.

Commission Report also.