Christopher Bond calls Valerie Plame Wilson a liar

[CatWoman]

As Mrs. Wilson told her story, some members and staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee watched with great interest. As part of its probe into pre-war intelligence, the committee interviewed Valerie Plame Wilson for the portions of the committee’s report dealing with the Niger uranium matter. At that time, as now, the question of how the CIA chose Joseph Wilson for the Niger trip was a subject of great interest. But Missouri Republican Sen. Christopher Bond, vice chairman of the committee, says Mrs. Wilson did not tell the committee about the young junior officer, the call from the vice president’s office, or the passing CIA official who suggested Joseph Wilson’s name.

“Friday was the first time we have ever heard that story,” Sen. Bond said in a statement to National Review Sunday evening. “Obviously if we had, we would have included it in the report. If Ms. Wilson’s memory of events has improved and she would now like to change her testimony, I’m sure the committee staff would be happy to re-interview her.”

For those who followed the Senate investigation, the young-junior-officer story was not the only surprise in Mrs. Wilson’s House testimony. In addition to saying that her office received a call from the vice president’s office, Mrs. Wilson flatly denied playing a role in choosing her husband for the trip to Niger. “I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him,” she testified. The Senate Intelligence Committee report, which concluded that she had indeed suggested her husband for the trip, was simply wrong, Mrs. Wilson testified. In particular, what she called a “quick e-mail” describing her husband’s qualifications for the trip was “taken out of context” by the committee to “make it seem as though I had suggested or recommended him.”

In response to an inquiry from National Review Online Friday, Sen. Bond disputed Mrs. Wilson’s memory. “We have…checked the memorandum written by Ms. Wilson suggesting her husband to look into the Niger reporting,” Bond said in a statement. “I…stand by the Committee’s finding that this memorandum indicates Ms. Wilson did suggest her husband for a Niger inquiry. Because the quote obviously does not represent the entirety of the memorandum, I suggest that the House Government Reform Committee request and examine this memorandum themselves. I am confident that they will come to the same conclusion as our bipartisan membership did.”

In addition, Mrs. Wilson testified that a CIA reports officer, who the Senate committee says told investigators that Mrs. Wilson had “offered up” her husband’s name for the trip, later told her, Mrs. Wilson, that the committee had got it all wrong. “He came to me almost with tears in his eyes,” she testified. “He said his words have been twisted and distorted.” She testified that the reports officer wrote a memo to correct the record — it is not clear to whom the memo was given — but that the CIA would not let him speak to committee investigators a second time.

Bond responded to that description of events, too. “We have checked the transcript of the comments made to the committee by the former reports officer and I stand by the committee’s description of his comments,” the senator said. “If the reports officer would like to clarify or change his remarks, I’m certain that the committee would welcome his testimony.”

Finally, Bond said flatly, “I stand by the findings of the committee’s report on the Niger-Iraq uranium information, including the information regarding Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2NhZWZlODljMjQxZjE4ZGIyNjVkYWQ5MzhiY2FjNDA=

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ocelot calls Christopher Bond a dipshit.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. MrsGrumpy agrees emphatically with ocelot.

[donco6]

3. donco6 agrees with MrsGrumpy. n/t

[Bunny]

8. Bunny agrees with donco6, who agrees with MrsGrumpy, who agrees with Ocelot.

[WoodrowFan]

13. I'll agree with anybody who calls Bond a dipshit. (NT)

[Dhalgren]

9. Dhalgren thirds the "dipshit" statement and adds

"lying asswipe, lickspital".

[endarkenment]

26. That is an insult to dipshits everywhere.

Bond is actually a turdwipe.

[maxsolomon]

4. attack the messenger

what is her motive for lying, and continuing to stick by her lie for 3 years?

impeach someone now.

[Hav]

5. .

Now that is a real scumbag. Always find a way to blame the victims first, it's the Republican way.

[rocktivity]

6. Plame suggested her husband WHEN SHE WAS ASKED if he'd be a good candidate

She DID NOT INITIATE either the suggestion or the trip.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Democrat 4 Ever]

22. If you listened to Plame on Friday - she didn't even suggest Wilson

for the job. Someone in the CIA suggested Joe and then asked Valerie if she would talk to him about the trip. She testified under oath - that it was a subordinate that suggested Joe and HER supervisor agreed and ask her to have him come in and talk.

Even their "facts" are lies taken, skewed and then re-packaged as more egregious lies.

[cali]

7. Hmm. Who to believe?

that f***wad Kit Bond, or Valerie Plame?

[blm]

10. Then why did only TWO other Senators agree with your 'finding' Sen. Bond? Not even the other GOPs

on the Intel panel would sign on to your piece of lying crap 'conclusions' that you ADDED to the report and that just happened to coincide with Rove'a talking points against Wilson at the time?

I think Fitzgerald should subpoena Pat Roberts, Kit Bond, and Orrin Hatch so they can provide the evidence they used to draw their conclusions about Wilson in their ADDENDUM to the report.

[devilgrrl]

11. Who the fuck is Christopher Bond?

Then again, who gives a rat's ass?

[CatWoman]

17. Christopher Bond, along with Orrin Hatch and Sam Brownbeck

wrote a memo and had it inserted into the official record of the 9/11 Report, claiming that Plame sent her husband to Niger to investigate a yellow cake purchase by Saddam.

[Parche]

34. Yellow Cake

This is the only yellow cake those yellow dipsh*ts found.....................






OH MEOW

[CatWoman]

37. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Oilwellian]

43. I think you're confusing the reports

I think the report in question is an addendum that Bond, Hatch and Roberts added to a Senate Intelligence Committee report. Only those three signed the addendum...but the rightwing noise machine, claiming it to be a "bipartisan" report, has used it ad nauseum to prove Plame sent her husband to Niger.

Oh, and, Bond is a fucking drunk.

[CatWoman]

45. You are correct

Keith Olbermann talked about this tonight, and named Fox New's Hume and Wallace "worst persons in the world" for insinuating that Plame lied at the hearing.

[justjones]

12. Can someone please explain to me....

why, if nepotism played a role in Joseph Wilson being sent to Niger to investigate whether or not Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium, does that make a difference in what he subsequently found?

I don't get why whether or not Valerie Plame recommended her husband to go to Niger is a big deal. If she did, so what? :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

27. because it was a conspiracy by Gore donors

To disgrace the president. Can't you see?

I mean, Valerie planned to send her husband to the posh paradise of Niger so he could find nothing. And she also knew that he would come back with a report saying he found nothing, and then when that happened, she knew that Bush would still put that information into those 16 words in his State of the Union address, and then she knew that when Bush invaded Iraq he would find no WMD. So, then she knew her husband Joe could write an op-ed piece in the NY Times 6 months later where he criticized the insertion of those 16 words...

[Canuckistanian]

36. A brilliant explanation

One problem, though.

Where does George Soros fit in?

[NewJeffCT]

38. Obviously

Soros owned the Club-Med Niger that Wilson stayed at when he went there. Wilson borrowed Barbra Streisand's suite and hung out with Michael Moore while there as well.

[Canuckistanian]

42. But of course

How could I have missed that?

You MUST come visit us at the villa in Barcelona this year.

You're obviously our kind of people.

[jaysunb]

14. Still throwing sand in the umpires eyes...

who gives a fuck about who sent or suggested Joe Wilson ? There was no Niger sale of uranium to Iraq, and there were no WMDs.
We were lied into a war. :evilfrown:

[guitar man]

15. I wouldn't give her too much shit

I bet she can off someone from 30 paces with a piece of string and a soda bottle cap :evilgrin:

[Justice Is Comin]

16. Oh good Bond,

We welcome that reports officer's testimony too. Oh boy do we ever.

Me thinks you will regret the day you heard the name Valerie Plame.

[Johonny]

18. Does Bond like ever read news papers?

Cause like that's the same story I pretty much read 4 years ago. Perhaps Bond is this dip of shit that I heard about.

[whistle]

19. Christopher Bond is a triple dip-shit with unlimited refills

[mnhtnbb]

28. That about sums it up.

[niyad]

20. once again, bond, let me remind you--you don't get to play it both ways--EITHER she was a desk

jockey with absolutely NO authority to authorize trips, etc, OR she was, in fact, so high up the chain that she could, in fact, do so. THOSE, you ignorant little putz, are your ONLY two options.

[Neecy]

21. Bond is a liar *and* a goddamn crook

He's one of the most corrupt officials in public life - google Kit Bond and Kansas City Southern railroad - yet he's calling someone ELSE a liar? Pathetic.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. I'd like to see the memo.

I can't believe anything that comes out of a Republican's mouth. Produce the memo so we can verify what it says before we decide it makes any difference.
Personally I don't see where it matters who sent Joe Wilson. All that matters is that he came back with the truth and that truth still stands. Bush made a claim and that claim has never been shown to be a fact. Who sent Joe Wilson or rather who suggested Joe Wilson go to Niger is nothing more than trivia and has no bearing on the facts. Bush lied to the American people and that lie has resulted in the deaths of over 3200 Americans and over 100,000 Iraqi's with no end in sight.

[Justice]

24. check out this quote--just have to read it to see parsing going on

Kit (note Kit makes me think of another odd name for a man - Scooter) is not interested in the truth. Kit is interested in keeping the truth hidden.



“We have…checked the memorandum written by Ms. Wilson suggesting her husband to look into the Niger reporting,” Bond said in a statement. “I…stand by the Committee’s finding that this memorandum indicates Ms. Wilson did suggest her husband for a Niger inquiry. Because the quote obviously does not represent the entirety of the memorandum, I suggest that the House Government Reform Committee request and examine this memorandum themselves. I am confident that they will come to the same conclusion as our bipartisan membership did.”

[Justice]

25. plus it was written by Byron York. that is enough to discount it.

[catmandu57]

29. Sometimes I'm so ashamed to be from Missouri

We have given the world some awful dipshits, this dipshit is a serious whiskey drunk who in all probability has a wet brain. I watched this fuck on the local news a week ago, and I can tell you he looked to me like he was done in and not long for the world.
I can also tell you i firmly believe that the world will be a much better place after this dipshit is gone.

[Lusted4]

30. Is there something in the water there? Limbaugh, Ashcroft, Bond.

But giving us Mark Twain kinda makes up for it.

[catmandu57]

35. Old Sam got the hell out of here

If my wife's feet weren't set in concrete I'd be gone yesterday, New Mexico that's the place to be.

[Lusted4]

41. I've been talking up Santa Fe to my wife also. nt

[NewJeffCT]

32. at least Missouri doesn't have

Lieberman!

How do you think I feel about that?

And, not sure where she was born, but I think Ann Coulter lives in CT somewhere... and, I think Laura Ingraham spent time in CT when growing up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. If they spent a 10th of the energy they spend trying to slander the Wilsons

on finding out where the forged Niger documents came from and what the President knew and when he knew it about the lie he told in the SOTU speech, we might actually have arrived at something important. Whether Valerie Plame lied or not, whether she has a faulty memory or not, whether Joe Wilson was sent by his wife, the CIA, or the VP, it doesn't matter. What matters is how this nation went to war based on a vast and detailed set of lies coming out of nearly everyone's mouth in the Bush Administration.

[Justice]

33. great points. They really do seem to have it out for the Wilsons, don't they?

[SemperEadem]

39. or for preserving the artificial construct that is the bush admin. n/t

[Supersedeas]

40. Wasn't there an Amendment to the Committee Report that was rejected!!

[zulchzulu]

44. Yeah, she only had a desk job that appointed ambassadors to investigate WMD matters...

Some desk job...

:sarcasm:

[sendero]

46. It's fun to watch these losers...

... re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

WHO THE FUCK CARES?

If she did recommend Wilson for the trip she should just say so because IT DON'T MATTER. It has no relevance to what happened WHATSOEVER.

The drooling wingnut argument that "if she sent her husband she's fair game to be outed as an agent" is 100% pure D bullshit.