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| Ombudsman: The Wilson-Plame Affair (Cont'd) |
| 2004-07-19 |
| via WaPo (h/t: Lucianne) - EFL Login: cybeprunk@cyberpunk.com / cyberpunk By Michael Getler - Sunday, July 18, 2004 Ombudsman There was no ambiguity in the conclusion of the massive report released by the Senate's bipartisan Select Committee on Intelligence on July 9. "Most of the major key judgments" made by the intelligence community about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were "either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting. A series of failures, particularly in analytic trade craft, led to the mischaracterization of the intelligence." The Post has done a good job sifting through and reporting on this exhaustively detailed study. But only one of perhaps a score of stories has attracted criticism from readers. That story, by staff writer Susan Schmidt, appeared on Page A9 July 10. It reported on what the committee had to say about a CIA-sponsored trip to Africa by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV in February 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Africa, and about the role of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, who was an undercover employee of the CIA at the time, in the decision to send him. There is no room here to go into all the details, but Wilson's trip, and his subsequent public criticism of the Bush administration, became a much longer-running and high-profile story than his original secret assignment. In addition, a federal grand jury has been conducting a criminal investigation for several months now into who identified Plame by name to columnist Robert D. Novak a year ago. ...more... And, for those who've followed this closely, has the Ombudsman come clean? |
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| #1 The Ombudsman comes about 60% of the way towards clean. A few people on the left have come clean on this. A lot of people on the left haven't. But, so what? The longer the left defends Wilson, the more it discredits itself. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-19 8:47:30 AM |