“He did it.” - Democratic Underground

sabra

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Fri Mar-16-07 08:46 PM
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“He did it.”

The Wilson's pleaded with Novak not to it, but he did it anyway... :mad:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/valerie-plame-wilson-in-the-floodlights/

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Mrs. Wilson: “I found out very early in the morning when my husband came in and dropped the newspaper on the bed and said, “He did it.” And I quickly turned and read the article and I felt like I had been hit in the gut. I — it was over in an instant, and I immediately thought of my family’s safety, the agents, the networks that I had worked with — and everything goes through your mind in an instant. ”

Flashback:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/143211

Friday, May 14th, 2004
Joseph Wilson: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity

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AMBASSADOR WILSON: Sure. He was walking down the street and a stranger came up to him and said, “You're Bob Novak, and can I chat with you?” That happens to public figures all the time. I'm sure it happens to you. Novak said, sure. They started talking. During the course of the conversation, this fellow said to Novak, “What about Wilson?” And Novak said, “Wilson is an asshole and his wife is a CIA operative -- his wife, Valerie Plame is a CIA operative.”

AMY GOODMAN: This is what Robert Novak told your friend?

AMBASSADOR WILSON: Right. And it just so happened that that stranger to Bob Novak was a friend of mine and he came to see me afterwards and related the story to me. I find that, quite apart from what I think of the article, the fact that he would be recklessly wandering the streets talking to strangers, giving that information that come up to him on the street extraordinarily reckless and unethical.

AMY GOODMAN: What did you do about it?

AMBASSADOR WILSON: I called him and he apologized and he wrote the story despite the CIA told him, of course, no.

AMY GOODMAN: Didn't Robert Novak know who you were, know your whole history?

AMBASSADOR WILSON: Well, he might claim that he didn’t, but, of course, in an article that appeared in an Evans & Novak article in 1990, there were three paragraphs devoted to me which started out by saying he's like the village shepherd, shepherding his flock taking care of the villagers trying to evacuate. He commented this is the stuff of heroism. I read that article to him, by the way, before he wrote his article.

AMY GOODMAN: On the telephone.

AMBASSADOR WILSON: On the telephone, yeah. I said, “Look, before you write the article, you might refresh your memory about me, these are things that you ought to know.” I sent him over the articles that I had written on the subject, and gave him a little bit of my background and read the excerpt from the Evans & Novak article in 1990.

AMY GOODMAN: What did he say?

AMBASSADOR WILSON: Well, he actually put some of that in his article. The article itself was not as much of a hatchet job as you usually get from Novak. The only thing that was remarkable about the article, frankly, was the dumping in the middle this, this reference to my wife. If you go back and read it that’s going, it adds nothing to the substance of the story that he's trying to promote. You ask yourself, why did he put it in. My other question to Novak is when he called the CIA and the CIA said no, what part of n-o didn't he understand?