Has anyone here seen this "scathing report"?

[CatWoman]

Senators Rebuke Joe Wilson Claims
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Friday, June 1, 2007

WASHINGTON -- In a rare rebuke of a public official by name, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee has issued a scathing report blasting former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.


The report claims Wilson misled the public and the intelligence committee about his trip to Niger in 2002 on behalf of the CIA to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium in Africa.


Best known as the husband of former CIA officer Valerie Plame, Ambassador Wilson was catapulted to the limelight after he published an Op-Ed in The New York Times on July 6, 2003, that accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war.


In his New York Times article, Wilson said that in February 2002 he was asked by the Central Intelligence Agency to travel to Niger to investigate "a particular intelligence report" that documented the sale of uranium to Iraq by the Niger government.


The CIA wanted him to "check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office," after Vice President Dick Cheney had raised questions about the purported uranium deals, he wrote.


Once he arrived in Niger's capital, Niamey, Wilson says he met with U.S. Ambassador Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, then "spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea" and meeting with former government officials and others involved in the uranium business. "It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."


And that is what he reported back to the CIA and to the State Department African Affairs Bureau, Wilson wrote. But according to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, released last Friday, much of what Wilson wrote in the article, and has said since, about the trip "is not true."

http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/1/100750.shtml?s=sr

[babylonsister]

1. newsmax? I'd have to see a link to the actual

'scathing' report. Funny, they left that out.

[CatWoman]

4. funny, indeed

:nuke:

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Newsmax: The Propaganda to Pass On! n/t

[sutz12]

3. That looks awfully familiar....

Just the basic wording of the article reads like something I read long ago. I swear this is a reprint of an article from 4 years ago.

:shrug:

[wakeme2008]

5. Funny they have no source of WHAT report that was

just somebody wrote.

[blogslut]

6. Who owns NewsMax, BTW?

Why, Chris Ruddy! A "reporter" known for his overzealous interest in Bill Clinton and Vince Foster:

Christopher Ruddy, the most energetic of the journalists claiming vast Clinton conspiracies, left the New York Post after his early 1994 stories on the death of Vincent Foster were heavily criticized in other media outlets. Hired by The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Ruddy was assigned by publisher Richard Mellon Scaife to pursue stories about Clinton. Scaife learned of Ruddy through the Western Journalism Center, a Scaife grantee, which had placed ads consisting of republished Ruddy articles on Foster...

link: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Chris_Ruddy

[LSK]

7. they are parsing words

They are still picking on if Plame "sent" Wilson vs "recommended" Wilson. Its an idiotic argument. Any damn fool would have recommended Wilson for the trip given his background and credentials.

[hootinholler]

8. Of course they are it's NewsMax

Only worth reading to be able to predict what the freeper next door will be spewing your way soon.

-Hoot