Exclusive Wilson Interview

Keith Olbermann's interview - found here - is good.

But let me say something.

The right has painted Wilson as some evil emperor of the left. But, in as much as Wilson, a rather not terribly known ambassador to Gabon (and I'm probably NOT spelling that right but it's Sunday morning and I'm tired and I have 7 more chapters to write TODAY), is known today is entirely a function of the Bush-Cheney team.

Wilson never said he was sent hand picked by Cheney. But, unlike what the right says, he was not sent by his wife either. CIA officials have said this order to go to Niger and investigate came from one of the top three people at the agency, of which Wilson's wife was not one. You know, a CIA controlled BY Bush-Cheney.

Wilson didn't come back to discredit Bush-Cheney. When he reported his findings, however, he found them ignored. The Bush-Cheney-Condi-Colin team were still running around saying WMD were everywhere and we were just about to see a mushroom cloud.

Given that, and probably with a great deal of soul searching (as Bill Clinton has pointed out quite ably, Wilson has donated to the campaign of BOTH Dems and Reps and in 1992, Wilson voted for Bush's dad rather than Clinton), listening to the lies perpetuated again and again, he wrote the op/ed for The Times which still got relatively small attention UNTIL Bush-Cheney decided to implement a vicious campaign that included outing a woman who was NOT a desk jockey but a highly placed covert operative specifically working on the hunt for WMD. A campaign that ended up telling EVERY operative that the president's own crew would attack them viciously if they did anything that was embarrassing to them even if what they said was the truth.

Look at how they treated Rowley, Richard Clarke, O'Neill. This is what Bush-Cheney does. The press loves to applaud them for their fierce loyalty but that's as much bullshit and fiction as anything else they do.

Bush-Cheney turned Wilson into a voice for the left just as they turned his wife into a neutralized desk jockey rather than out there fighting the fight to control WMD (which, frankly, the USA has the overwhelmingly stockpile of).