Special to The BRAD BLOG 2/25/2007
by Libby/CIA Leak Trial Correspondent Margie Burns
… it wasn’t Wilson’s op-ed piece that set the off the chain of events leading to their disclosure of the CIA WMD analyst and her covert network. The Bush administration began its campaign to discredit Valerie Plame/Wilson at least a month prior to the release of her husband’s article.
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The sad part is these petty little backstabbers are running OUR country
It became clear to Joe Wilson almost immediately upon arriving in Niger that there “was no ‘there’ there” regarding any suspected sale of Yellowcake Uranium from Niger to Iraq. He let the White House know that. They ignored him. Shortly afterwards he let them know again. They continued to ignore him. It was quite awhile after that when he finally went public with his findings.
It would make sense to me that the Bush Administration, having sent Wilson as an ‘errand boy’ to confirm the story they had cooked up, were distressed that he wasn’t coming back with the conclusions they needed to justify an attack on Iraq. Once Wilson began telling them that he couldn’t give them the answer they wanted, but only could give them the truth that they desperately didn’t want, they started planning how to go after him should he become problematic.
Wilson became prolematic, so in classic Cosa Nostra style, they didn’t go after him, they went after his family.
Didn’t Marlon Brando play Dick Cheney in Godfather I?