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RealClearPolitics
April 27, 2018
Accusations abounded that the Bush White House orchestrated the leak to punish Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for alleging in a June New York Times op-ed that the president lied about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium. But by early autumn 2003, Deputy Secretary ofÃâà...
The Hill
April 17, 2018
An investigation in 2007 found that Libby had leaked the identity of former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in an act of retribution against her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his criticism of the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Former President George W. BushÃâà...
Progressive.org
April 16, 2018
Wilson, a former U.S. diplomat, is referring to the President's April 13 decision to grant a full pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., formerly chief of staff for ... Joseph C. Wilson IV, was U.S. Ambassador to Gabon from 1992 to 1995 and served in numerous other diplomatic postings in Africa and Iraq underÃâà...
Bainbridge Island Review
April 16, 2018
In retaliation for former ambassador Joseph Wilson telling the truth in 2003 that Saddam Hussein was actually not attempting to purchase the radioactive material for possible nuclear weapon construction, Libby and Richard Armitage told several journalists that Wilson's wife was a covert CIA agent, thusÃâà...
Yahoo News
April 15, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, a man whose family was turned upside down by Scooter Libby and other President George W. Bush administration officials, sharply criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning Libby, saying it showed his disregard for America's nationalÃâà...
WTVA
April 15, 2018
Scroll for more content... After a lengthy investigation, one member of the Bush administration, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was brought to trial and convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements. Timeline: February 2002 - Joseph Wilson, a former US diplomat, travels to Niger for the CIA.
Yahoo News
April 15, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, a man whose family was turned upside down by Scooter Libby and other President George W. Bush administration officials, sharply criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning Libby, saying it showed his disregard for America's nationalÃâà...
The Macomb Daily
April 15, 2018
“Somebody's going to have to ask President Bush why he went out of his way to say he respected the jury's verdict,” John Bolton, Bush's U.N. ambassador and Trump's new national security adviser, said at the time. “If you think it was a miscarriage of justice, then you think it shouldn't have gone to a jury toÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
April 14, 2018
"Finally, as to Trump, he is a vile and despicable individual," he later added. "He represents repudiation of everything that my generation has worked to secure for our nation and its people. I find him utterly unacceptable as president." Wilson, a former ambassador to Gabon, is married to Valerie Plame, theÃâà...
HuffPost
April 14, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, a man whose family was turned upside down by Scooter Libby and other President George W. Bush administration officials, sharply criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning Libby, saying it showed his disregard for America's nationalÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 14, 2018
Libby was convicted of four felonies in 2007 — for perjury before a grand jury, lying to FBI investigators and obstruction of justice during an investigation into the disclosure of the work of Valerie Plame Wilson, a former covert CIA agent and the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson. Libby was sentencedÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 14, 2018
Libby was convicted of making false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice in the 2007 investigation of Plame, a former covert CIA agent and the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000, but his sentence was commuted by Bush.
CBS New York
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — President Donald Trump lashed out at James Comey on Friday, calling the former FBI director an “untruthful slime ball” who should be held accountable for leaks – and hours later approved a recommendation to pardon I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted ofÃâà...
Yahoo News
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, a man whose family was turned upside down by Scooter Libby and other President George W. Bush administration officials, sharply criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning Libby, saying it showed his disregard for America's nationalÃâà...
90.3 KAZU
April 7, 2018
The investigation into who leaked the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame has already led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and could bring more indictments in the coming weeks. Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, says the Bush Administration leaked her nameÃâà...
Los Alamos Daily Post
March 29, 2018
“Our Woman in Havana is a brilliant account of a diplomat's challenges in formulating a sound policy consensus amid the shifting sands of domestic political, economic, and ... –Ambassador Joseph Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity.
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 4, 2018
That encounter marked the start of a decades-long friendship that saw Givenchy dress the star in nearly a dozen films, making her the brand's de-facto ambassador. "His clothes for me have always not only thrilled me but also given me so much confidence. I've worked in them, I've played in them, I'veÃâà...
Raw Story
February 10, 2018
When a former ambassador, Joseph C. Wilson, wrote a New York Times op-ed saying there was no nuclear threat from Iraq, the White House retaliated by leaking the name and destroying the career of his wife, Valerie Plame, one of the CIA's top national security experts. 19. Bush pardoned the Plame affairÃâà...
snopes.com
October 18, 2017
dispatched former ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger in February 2002 on an eight-day trip to that country to investigate; later, on 6 July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed piece published in the New York Times (“What I Didn't Find in Africa”) charging that “some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program wasÃâà...
New York Times
September 27, 2017
Ms. Wilson, whose identity as a covert operative was leaked in 2003 by members of the George W. Bush administration nettled by the opposition of her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the Iraq war, repeated the well-worn narrative that Jewish neoconservatives promoted the invasion of Iraq — andÃâà...
AOL
September 21, 2017
Wilson's identity as an operative was leaked in 2003 by a Bush administration official out of retribution for criticism made by her husband — former diplomat Joe Wilson — over Bush's decision to invade Iraq. Wilson made headlines recently over her effort to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter and banÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
August 23, 2017
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame, left, and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, arrive for a news conference at the National Press Club in ... in former President George W. Bush's administration in 2003 in an effort to discredit her husband, Joe Wilson, a former diplomat who criticized Bush'sÃâà...
TechCrunch
August 8, 2017
Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, investigated a rumor that Iraq had been buying yellowcake uranium, a building block for nuclear weapons. Wilson found no such evidence. The White House didn't like the answer, and that started the ball rolling that would eventually unveil Plame.
Progressive.org
June 7, 2017
Joseph C. Wilson IV is a former United States diplomat who exposed the manipulation of U.S. intelligence to create a false impression about the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The subsequent leaking of Wilson's wife Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agentÃâà...
Penn State News
March 2, 2015
Penn State School of International Affairs students in Professor Dennis Jett's Intelligence in International Relations (INTAF 812) course got a surprise during Monday's class when Jett called his friend retired U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson to answer the students' questions about intelligence after theyÃâà...
Huffington Post
September 21, 2009
[3] A United States Foreign Service diplomat before retiring in 1998, Wilson was posted to African countries and to Iraq during the George H. W. Bush administration and later served as Special Assistant to US President Bill Clinton and as Senior Director for African Affairs on the United States National Security Council.
NorthJersey.com
December 31, 1999
The CIA had asked Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, to investigate a British report that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was seeking to procure uranium in Africa to build weapons of mass destruction. When Wilson wrote a high-profile op-ed in 2003 saying that he found no suchÃâà...
WBT
December 31, 1999
By Joseph Wilson and Kirsten Grieshaber. .... IRAN-US-JOHN BOLTON — Iran calls the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States shameful, citing his involvement with an opposition group once named a terrorist organization.
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