{"id":23215,"date":"2005-11-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:35:33","slug":"witnesses_say_wilson_talked_about_cia_wife3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/11\/09\/witnesses_say_wilson_talked_about_cia_wife3\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses Say Wilson Talked About CIA Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Grab cut eight, because that goes with this story. Our buddies at NewsMax are back again. &#8220;Fitzgerald Ignored Witnesses Who Contradicted Wilson ? Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald\u2019s Leakgate investigation is coming unraveled, as witness after witness steps forward to challenge a key premise of his controversial probe. Was the identity of Joseph Wilson\u2019s wife Valerie Plame really a deep dark secret before she was &#8216;outed\u2019 by columnist Robert Novak in July 2003? The number of witnesses now saying &#8216;No\u2019 has climbed to four &#8211; and none of them have apparently been interviewed by Fitzgerald\u2019s investigators. On Wednesday, Wayne Simmons, a 27-year veteran at the CIA, told Fox News Radio: &#8216;As most people now know, (Plame) was traipsed all over Washington many years ago by Joe Wilson and introduced at embassies and other parties as &#8216;my CIA wife.\u2019 Last week, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WABC Radio\u2019s John Batchelor that during a 2002 conversation with Wilson while the two waited to appear on a TV show, Wilson casually mentioned that his wife worked at &#8216;the Agency.\u2019 In Oct. 2003, NBC\u2019s diplomatic correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, told CNBC that Plame\u2019s occupation &#8216;was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger.\u2019 Mitchell added: &#8216;So a number of us began to pick up on that.\u2019 And in Sept. 2003, NationalReviewOnline\u2019s Cliff May wrote that when Plame\u2019s CIA connection was mentioned in Novak\u2019s column &#8211; &#8216;That wasn\u2019t news to me.\u2019 <\/line><BR\/>&#8220;&#8216;I had been told that (Plame was CIA) &#8211; but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of.\u2019 The day his report appeared, May told the Fox News Channel\u2019s John Gibson: &#8216;I knew this, and a lot of other people knew it.\u2019 In fact, rumors now swirl around Washington that Plame used to take her friends to lunch at the CIA\u2019s cafeteria. So what has Mr.Fitzgerald &#8211; who was hailed as a &#8216;prosecutor\u2019s prosecutor\u2019 only weeks ago &#8211; done with the avalanche of testimony that contradicts his stated claim that Plame\u2019s job &#8216;was not widely known\u2019? Apparently nothing. In the six days since he\u2019s gone public, Gen. Vallely says prosecutors have yet to contact him.&#8221; He was on Hannity &amp;amp; Colmes last night, and Colmes said to him, &#8220;Did Ambassador Joe Wilson expose his wife himself? That\u2019s exactly what our next guest says. Joining us now in an exclusive interview that you\u2019re not going to see anyplace else, Fox News military analyst and retired Major General Paul Vallely, who says that Wilson told him that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent in 2002. General, where did this happen?&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/witnesses_say_wilson_talked_about_cia_wife.Par.0007.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> VALLELY: Joe Wilson and I met in Washington in the greenroom of the bureau there for Fox. Met several times in 2002, and as we talked about our families, he did not say that she was an agent, only that she was employed by the agency, and as we since learned, she is in fact and has been an analyst in Washington for a number of years. So that basically is how we met and how we discussed that.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: So Joe Wilson is telling people. Cliff May didn\u2019t reveal his source, but he said, &#8220;I knew who she was. I knew she was CIA when I saw it in Novak\u2019s column.&#8221; Andrea Mitchell said she knew who it was, and Wayne Simmons, the new guy on the scene here, 27-year veteran at the CIA said to Fox News, &#8220;As most people now know, Plame was traipsed all over Washington many years ago by her husband and introduced at embassies and other parties as, quote, unquote, &#8216;my CIA wife.'&#8221; I thought this was really strange. Remember the week of special counsel Fitzgerald\u2019s press conference, which was a Friday, on I guess it was the Monday or Tuesday of that week, he was sending investigators, FBI, into the Wilson neighborhood asking neighbors, &#8220;Did you know that Valerie Wilson down the street there is CIA?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, no, we knew nothing about it,&#8221; and I remember thinking this is an odd time to be doing all this. After two years of the investigation, when this was the focus of it, original focus was, who outed this brave, courageous, covert agent whose life has been destroyed, and to be going around the neighborhood asking this at that point two years after the investigation began was somewhat curious. Then, you learn that Wilson wasn\u2019t called to testify. None of these other people have been asked to testify before the grand jury. Now, clearly what\u2019s going to happen here is that Scooter Libby\u2019s defense team (ha-ha-ha) I\u2019m sure they\u2019ve got this dossier already loaded and you\u2019ve got witnesses here that are going to be called and this is going to go right to the whole notion of whether she was covert or not, the whole notion of how she could have been outed when she already was. So it\u2019s going to be fireworks time. It\u2019s going to be fascinating to watch this.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/witnesses_say_wilson_talked_about_cia_wife.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Grab cut eight, because that goes with this story. Our buddies at NewsMax are back again. &#8220;Fitzgerald Ignored Witnesses Who Contradicted Wilson ? Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald\u2019s Leakgate investigation is coming unraveled, as witness after witness steps forward to challenge a key premise of his controversial probe. 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