Metafilter thread on the Bush/Wilson bruhaha. Two weeks ago, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson 4th wrote a NYTimes article entitled What I Didn’t Find in Africa about his debunking of the Hussein/Niger uranium purchase allegations for the CIA back in February 2002.
Not unexpectedly, the Bush administration obviously hasn’t been taking that so well, and based on this Nation article, things have taken a turn for the worse. Two senior administration officials have just outed Wilosn’s wife, a CIA agent working under “nonofficial cover” tracking parties trying to buy/sell WMD/WMD material. Well, was working before the White House leaked her name:
Without acknowledging whether she is a deep-cover CIA employee, Wilson says, “Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames.” If she is not a CIA employee and Novak is reporting accurately, then the White House has wrongly branded a woman known to friends as an energy analyst for a private firm as a CIA officer. That would not likely do her much good.
Related:
- NYTimes: 16 Words, and Counting
- Cooked intel revolts spooks – Spooks revolt
- Bush raising wads of money, Expects to clean up in California, too – under the most conservative calculations of his campaign staff Bush will be spending at least $426,640/day, from now until Nov 2004 – that’s over $200M.
- New White House email system: mefi, /.