Wilson Responds: Bush And Cheney Must Explain Why They Outed My Wife

[RedEarth]

Ambassador Joseph Wilson offered his first response to the Scooter Libby verdict during a conference call today.

“Now that this trial is over,” Wilson said, “the president and the vice president owe the country a much broader explanation of their own actions.” Wilson called on them both to release the transcripts of their discussions with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and called on Bush specifically to apologize for overseeing the outing of his wife:

I also learned today that the president was quoted as saying that he was sorry for Mr. Libby and his family. I wish that he would express his sorrow for what has happened to my wife, whose career was destroyed as a consequence of this, and also to the service people of this country who are fighting in a war that now very clearly was justified by lies and disinformation.

Wilson said he hoped the verdict would teach Libby and other U.S. officials a lesson, that “you don’t abuse the public trust engaging in personal vendettas.” But he said he feared that “they will learn the lesson that several of them apparently learned after Watergate — not the lesson of not abusing power, but rather the lesson…that they should’ve destroyed the tapes.”

video here............

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/06/wilson-responds-verdict/

[Junkdrawer]

1. Libby was offered up so the Bush & Cheney DIDN'T have to explain...

why they outed his wife.

They knocked the eyes out of Brewster-Jennings; the Good CIA was pissed and Libby was offered up as a sacrifice.

[H2O Man]

2. Right.

They owe it to the country.

[wicket]

3. They certainly do

Thanks for keeping this front and center.

:patriot:

[pampango]

4. Let you wife talk for herself, for a change.

This whole case is about your wife and her outing as a covert CIA agent. Your involvement is peripheral.

Let here speak for herself and then support her.

[Matariki]

5. thanks for your concern, as they say.

[spooky3]

8. Actually, it's about both of them

the reason the gang outed her was to retaliate against and discredit him. So while you have a good point that we'd like to hear from her, I see nothing wrong with hearing from him as well.

[progressoid]

6. Jeez Joe, don't you watch the TV...

I just heard on CNN that your wife wasn't covert so she couldn't be outed.





do I have to add this? :sarcasm:

[malaise]

7. No retreat no surrender

Expose them Joe.