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  Joe Wilson - Congresspedia
Wilson was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1984 as a Republican from Lexington County, and never missed a statutory session in 17 years.
Wilson was mentioned as a possible candidate for retiring Senator Fritz Hollings' seat in 2004, but he decided to run for a second full term and handily beat his opponents, Democrat Michael Ray Ellisor and Constitution Party nominee Steve Lefemine.
Wilson has sponsored dozens and co-sponsored hundreds of bills, issuing press releases regarding seven of them, concerning teacher recruitment and retention, college campus fire safety, National Guard troop levels, arming airline pilots, tax credits for adoption and living organ donors, and state defense forces, most of which are still in committee.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Joe_Wilson   (848 words)

  
 CNN.com - Former ambassador blames White House for leak - Sep. 29, 2003
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, blames the White House for telling a newspaper columnist that his wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA operative.
Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative, and not in charge of undercover operatives.
WILSON: That means that I think that he knew and he was told that she was a CIA operative, which means that they come under the branch of the CIA that deals with clandestine operations.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/29/cnna.wilson.zahn   (943 words)

  
 Clifford D. May on Joe Wilson on National Review Online
Wilson spent a total of eight days in Niger "drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people," as he put it.
The problem is Wilson "had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel discovered.
I don't think Joe Wilson is an evil man. I do think he is an angry partisan and an opportunist.
www.nationalreview.com /may/may200407121105.asp   (1972 words)

  
 Scout.com: Top Prospect #38: LHP, Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson came to the Phillies from the University of Maryland – Baltimore County in the 13th round of the 2003 Draft.
Joe Wilson brought to the Phillies when they grabbed him in the 2003 Draft.
Wilson won’t turn 22 until the 2003 season is nearly finished and by then, he should be at Lakewood.
phillies.scout.com /2/215343.html   (374 words)

  
 AlterNet: Defending Joe Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When Bush's use of this allegation become a matter of controversy last summer, Wilson went public with a New York Times op-ed in which he noted his private mission to Niger – which he had taken on behalf of the CIA – had led him to conclude the allegation was highly unlikely.
Time and again, Joe Wilson told anyone who would listen that the president had lied to the American people, that the vice president had lied, and that he had 'debunked' the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.
Whether their motivation was to punish Wilson for speaking out or to try to undermine his credibility by suggesting his only bona fides for the Niger trip was his marriage license, blowing Valerie Wilson's cover still was a possible crime and an odious act.
www.alternet.org /story/19270   (2418 words)

  
 Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission (washingtonpost.com)
Former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, dispatched by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq sought to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program with uranium from Africa, was specifically recommended for the mission by his wife, a CIA employee, contrary to what he has said publicly.
Wilson has asserted that his wife was not involved in the decision to send him to Niger.
Wilson's reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html   (1115 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOE WILSON: Planning to Exceed
Joe Wilson is referred to by many who have heard him, as quite possibly the next Kenny G. Please note: Sounds clips (samples) may not be digital quality due to uploading.
Joe was born on November 7, 1982 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Joe says: Because it is only by His will I live and move and have the testimony to share and be a light through the music He gives me to minister with.
cdbaby.com /joewilson   (611 words)

  
 Dean's World - Joe Wilson, Serial Liar
Wilson claimed in that editorial, that the British report regarding Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium for an African country were trumped up, even as he himself had already admitted in his defbriefing (as detailed by the Senate intelligence committee) that Niger officials were approached by Iraqis.
Joe Wilson and his wife has always maintained that she was asked by her superiors at the CIA to ask her husband to go to Niger and that she was asked to write a letter of recommendation for him.
Joe Wilson did not tell the CIA in March 2002 that the dates and signatures were wrong on the forged Niger documents, as that story implied, but it was public information in June 2003, when this story was written.
www.deanesmay.com /posts/1158574143.shtml   (3522 words)

  
 2001 NEA National Heritage Fellowships: Joe Wilson: Taking Him Back Home Again
Joe Wilson's family and cultural background growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Tennessee had a significant influence on his life.
The marriage of the European violin and the African banjo happened hundreds of years ago in the Tidewaters of Virginia, and resulting forms of music were adopted and transformed in distinct styles by generations of both white musicians in the mountain region between shared by Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Joe left home at the age of 18 to look for work, and found his way as far north as New York City, but despite the money he was able to make in various jobs, he drifted back to the south.
www.nea.gov /honors/heritage/Heritage01/Wilson2.html   (822 words)

  
 Home | The Joseph and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust
Helping them to prepare for a civil suit that would uncover the truth surrounding the leak, ensure all relevant public officials are held accountable for actions depriving the Wilsons of their privacy and constitutional rights, and serve as a deterrent to similar crimes being committed in the future.
Should the civil action result in a payment to Joe and/or Valerie Wilson that is in excess of all costs associated with their legal activities, the equivalent of all monies contributed to the Trust will be returned to the Trust.
To punish and discredit Wilson and intimidate others who might come forward, senior Bush administration officials leaked to reporters the name of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, and her classified CIA status – destroying her career and jeopardizing national security.
www.wilsonsupport.org   (1101 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Wilson is now pretending there is some kind of important distinction between whether she "recommended" or "proposed" him for the trip.
Number two: Joe Wilson didn't tell the truth about how he supposedly came to realize that it was "highly doubtful" there was anything to the story he'd been sent to Niger to investigate.
Number three: Joe Wilson was also not telling the truth when he said that his final report to the CIA had "debunked" the Niger story.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110005375   (860 words)

  
 The utterly clueless Joe Wilson. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
The person whose response I most wanted is Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who has claimed to discover that Saddam was guiltless on the charge of seeking uranium from Niger, and has further claimed to be the object, along with his CIA wife, of a campaign of government persecution.
Wilson has had to alter his story so many times—he first denied that the CIA had anything to do with selecting him for the Niger mission and later claimed that he had exposed a forgery that wasn't disclosed until after he returned—that the mind reels at having to reread his conceited book.
The closest Wilson ever comes to a notional Iraq-Niger contact is at second hand, when one of his government sources tells of an approach, through a Niger businessman, to meet an Iraqi official at a conference of the Organization of African Unity in Algiers in 1999.
www.slate.com /id/2140058   (1474 words)

  
 Wilson: The president should ‘fire Karl Rove’ - Today Show - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wilson is husband of Valerie Plame, the former CIA staffer exposed after a leak to the press.
She asked Wilson whether he feels Karl Rove should be fired, and about his wife, who’s now back at the CIA, but Wilson started the interview by accusing the White House of a conspiracy.
Joe Wilson: What this thing has been for the past two years has been a cover-up, a cover-up of the web of lies that underpin the justification for going to war in Iraq.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8568266   (1025 words)

  
 I accuse - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When he boarded the plane for Niger, Wilson could not have imagined how profoundly that trip would change his life and that of his wife, Valerie Plame -- nor how its consequences would disgrace the Bush administration, whose retaliatory actions against Wilson and Plame are still under investigation by a Justice Department special counsel.
Wilson would live to hear himself portrayed quite differently by Republican attackers after his break with the White House.
While those personal attacks were obnoxious, what astonished Wilson was the decision by senior administration officials to expose Plame, who worked undercover for the CIA to stem the spread of weapons of mass destruction around the world.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2004/05/03/wilson/index_np.html   (723 words)

  
 Ambassador Joseph Wilson Updates BuzzFlash on the Bush Administration's Betrayal of Our National Security | ...
Joseph Wilson: First of all, the prosecutor in a criminal case is not obligated to file a report or do anything else, other than to charge those people whom he has determined were indictable for crimes.
Joseph Wilson: Until I saw these excerpts from Hubris recently, I was of the view that their intention was to go after me, and she just happened to be one of the things that they used in order to do so.
Wilson what his knowlege and opinions are about what is going on in Iraq and any other part he has expertise.
www.buzzflash.com /articles/interviews/033   (4286 words)

  
 The So-called "Lies" of Joe Wilson | TPMCafe
Joe Wilson isn't lying, Andrea Mitchell is. Moreover, when Wilson appeared on Meet the Press on July 6, 2003 with Andrea, he did not say what she claims he did.
Joe Wilson consistently said that the request originated with the Vice President and was passed to the CIA.
Since Joe Wilson's findings were to be integrated into a more comprehensive report on the issue of Iraq seeking uranium in Niger, perhaps all they wanted was his piece of the puzzle (debriefing) and there was not enough to warrant a written report.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/19/142419/59   (11093 words)

  
 Joseph C. Wilson IV - SourceWatch
Joseph C. Wilson IV, retired former U.S. ambassador, is one of the prominent figures in the U.S. government who have charged the Bush administration with using cooked intelligence to justify war in Iraq.
Additionally, Wilson accused the administration of attempting to discredit and intimidate him by deliberately leaking the identity of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA covert operative.
Wilson "interpreted the leak of his wife's C.I.A. connection as an act of vengeance from White House officials for his public accusations of deceit in building a case for the Iraq war.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Joseph_C._Wilson_IV   (1389 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Joe Wilson's Credibility Problem by Joel Mowbray
But Wilson revealed himself as the headline whore he is by grabbing the spotlight when the story first emerged about Niger and forged documents purporting to show illicit sales to Saddam.
Wilson, for his part, pandered to the stupid and/or willingly blind—his base—by denying that his wife’s letter had anything to do with his trip to Niger.
While Wilson’s penchant for prevarication does not put Rove in the clear legally if, as it does not yet appear, he actually knew that Plame was undercover before he talked to Bob Novak and Time’s Matt Cooper.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18798   (928 words)

  
 AlterNet: The Importance of Being Joe Wilson
Joseph Wilson is the man who ignited the scandal that envelops the Bush administration today.
In July Wilson revealed in a New York Times op-ed that the Bush administration's claim that Saddam was seeking to acquire uranium from the African nation of Niger was false.
Wilson's editorial was the first piece of concrete evidence that the administration had outright lied to the American people in order to take the nation to war.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17091   (2127 words)

  
 The Senate's bad intelligence - Salon
The following is Wilson's letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee pointing to errors in the Republican senators' additional comments to the report and demanding corrections.
'They [the officers who did ask Wilson to check the uranium story] were aware of who she was married to, which is not surprising,' he said.
Wilson said he was reimbursed only for expenses." (Newsday article "Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover," dated July 22, 2003).
www.salon.com /opinion/feature/2004/07/16/wilson_letter   (1251 words)

  
 NYO - Joe Conason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wilson, and that the entire leak investigation was a partisan witch hunt and perhaps an abuse of discretion by the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald.
Armitage’s minor role somehow proves the White House didn’t seek to punish Valerie Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, for his decision to publicly debunk the Presidential misuse of dubious intelligence from Niger concerning Iraq’s alleged attempts to purchase yellowcake uranium.
Armitage knew about Valerie Wilson was that he had read a negative dossier on Joe Wilson prepared at the behest of Mr.
www.observer.com /20060911/20060911_Joe_Conason_politics_joeconason.asp   (500 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
WILSON: I received this on October 25, 2002, at the very beginning of the serious debate on what U.S. policy toward Iraq should be, eight months after I made a trip to Niger, and eight months before my wife's identity was compromised.
WILSON: I believe passionately in the right of citizens and the responsibility of citizens to participate in the choice of their political leaders.
Joe Wilson, the former ambassador to a couple countries in Africa and the former acting ambassador in Iraq.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0507/14/wbr.01.html   (6659 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Joe Wilson's threat against me
Interestingly, in making the demand by e-mail, Wilson's lawyer passed along to multiple staffers at WND an earlier e-mail written to him by Wilson.
When I offered to Wilson and his attorney in a return e-mail the opportunity to set the record straight and present their viewpoint in a follow-up interview, they declined – instead reiterating their bullying legal threat.
Again, interestingly, in his e-mail to the attorney, Wilson did not seem to be disputing that he told Gen. Vallely that his wife was with the CIA.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47309   (841 words)

  
 It Shines For All: Joe Wilson Going Forward Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rove will not be called to answer in criminal court for his participation in the wrongful disclosure of Valerie Wilson's classified employment status at the CIA in retaliation against Joe Wilson for questioning the rationale for war in Iraq, that obviously does not end the matter.
Wilson made at YearlyKos, during an unannounced drop-by at a meeting of MoveOn.org members on Friday afternoon (June 9th), which I happened to be sitting in on.
Wilson's politics, however, only extend as far as he's willing to place his personal pocketbook which, he being a typical Democrat, won't be too far.
www.shinesforall.com /archives/2006/06/joe_wilson_goin.html   (755 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Joe Wilson fumes over Vallely charges in WND
Paul Vallely retract a statement he made to WND that the man at the center of the CIA leak case "outed" his own wife as a CIA employee in conversations more than a year before her identity was revealed in a syndicated column.
It disputes Vallely's claim that Wilson mentioned Valerie Plame's status with the CIA in conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington as they waited to appear as analysts.
Vallely and Wilson were both contracted by Fox News to discuss the war on terror as the U.S. faced off with Iraq in the run-up to the spring 2003 invasion, according to the general.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47248   (1314 words)

  
 Wilson Foundation
In 1963, the Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation was established by Joseph C. Wilson, then Chair of the Board of Xerox Corporation, and his wife, Peggy.
As he shepherded his father's company, Haloid, from a small photographic paper manufacturer to an international corporation, Xerox, Joe Wilson developed a reputation in his own community of Rochester, New York, and nationally as a thoughtful leader, committed to addressing problems head-on.
We came to the consensus that while we are a modest family foundation, we wanted to have a meaningful impact in promoting transitional or transformational housing on a national level.
www.mcjcwilsonfoundation.org /foundation.cfm   (1045 words)

  
 Clifford D. May on Joe Wilson on National Review Online
Wilson should be regarded as a disinterested professional who had done a thorough investigation into Saddam's alleged attempts to purchase uranium in Africa.
Wilson is now saying (on C-SPAN this morning, for example) that he opposed military action in Iraq because he didn't believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and he foresaw the possibility of a difficult occupation.
Wilson himself acknowledged, his so-called investigation was nothing more than "eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people" at the U.S. embassy in Niger.
www.nationalreview.com /may/may200309291022.asp   (846 words)

  
 Joe Wilson Online
Wilson to be responsible, hard working, and cooperative...he is very interested in becoming the best teacher that he possibly can...I firmly believe that Mr.
Wilson would be a welcome addition to any district as a
Ontario Local Schools, Mansfield OH "Joe has been able to get students to produce quality music and appreciate the value in the performing arts...Joe is creative and sincere and this aids him tremendously in the classroom...we know he will be a positive addition to any staff he chooses to be a part of."
www.joewilsononline.com /index.htm   (495 words)

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