Many Bush critics also don’t seem to understand the difference between the words “Niger” and “Africa”.

Sent at the behest of the Vice President

Weak, as you stated. Wilson never himself claimed to have been sent by Cheney.

The forged Niger documents

Same. When you want to point out someone is a liar, can't you just simply state what they said and how that differs with facts, with supporting links that one can read. Stringing a bunch of if A then B, then C, therefore D sort-of conclusions together doesn't help your case. I thought this was a dummies guide. :)

"Valerie had nothing to do with the matter," Wilson wrote in a memoir published this year. "She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip."

Flat out non-lie. The conclusions written at the end of the SSCI report have been debunked, entirely.

Wilson in a letter to Salon.com:

• I never claimed to have "debunked" the allegation that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. I claimed only that the transaction described in the documents that turned out to be forgeries could not have occurred and did not occur. I did not speak out on the subject until several months after it became evident that what underpinned the assertion in the State of the Union address were those documents, reports of which had sparked Vice President Cheney's original question that led to my trip.

Is that all?

jmaster:

Niger is located in Western Africa. What's your point?

He told Kristof of the Times, Pincus of the WaPo, and Judis and Ackerman of The New Republic that "this senior envoy briefed the C.I.A. and State Department and reported that the documents were bogus, for two main reasons", that "Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong,'", and "He returned after a visit to Niger in February 2002 and reported to the State Department and the CIA that the documents were forgeries." 3 different reporters at 3 different papers/magazines all heard him "misspeak" that he "reported the documents were bogus", "(concluded) that the documents may have been forged and "reported to the State Department and the CIA that the documents were forgeries", respectively. He admitted he had not seen the forgeries at that time and so could not have reported or concluded anything about them. Kristof now says that Wilson never mentioned them. Pincus quite conspicuously does not, in a story that appeared the same day he supposedly e-mailed Wilson to say Wilson didn't mention them. Shame he didn't use the story he was co-writing to say the same thing.

Along the Pincus lines, Kristof's only mention of this in print is in his correction:

"Wilson has said that he misspoke when he made references to the documents to me and to two other journalists. By the time we spoke in 2003, these problems in the documents had been pointed out and were in the public domain, but apparently not in early 2002. So while it’s possible that he reported that the signatures were wrong, that seems to me unlikely."

Now that is odd. There is no denial there, nothing like "I was the reporter he talked to and he did not say he had seen the forged documents. I'm sorry for the confusion." Nothing like that at all. (This is going by Kaus' and Maguire's accounts. The actual correction is safe from prying non-Select eyes. I trust Kaus a hell of a lot more than Wilson.)

And you can talk about the addendums all you want, I was referencing the body of the report, starting on page 36.

Incidentally, I considered "Wilson Lied" to be a minor detail that is much less important than "Wilson was wrong".

No, as I quoted in a later thread;

Wilson writes:

I did not misstate the facts as Nick Kristof acknowledged in an email to me that is in the first chapter of the new edition (paperback) of the book. Pincus also acknowledged that to me in a telephone call in July 2004, and again just two days ago in an email. This is part of the misreporting that I tried to correct in my original article on July 6, 2003 in which I said clearly that I had never seen the documents. What motive would I have in saying something so demonstrably false since the USG did not even have the documents in question at the time I was asked to go to Niger. All discussion with both Kristof and Pincus was about information that al Baradai brought to the public in his March, 2003 testimony before the UN.

More...

Chalk this one up to sloppy reporting. Seems to be contagious. ;)

Now I return you to your regular programming.

No, I read that.

The problem is that we only have Wilson's word for it. Kristof didn't seem to mention it in a public (well, semi-public) correction. Pincus pointedly did not in a story the same day he supposedly e-mailed Wilson. I haven't seen any recent stories/corrections by Judis and Ackerman, so I don't know about them. (Forgot to mention, in the Judis/Ackerman piece, there is yet another lie by Wilson: "The CIA circulated the ambassador's report to the vice president's office, the ambassador confirms to TNR." Confirming something he did not know and was, in fact, false.)

Yeah, sloppy reporting by (oops, miscounted earlier) 4 different reporters at 3 different publications all were similarly "sloppy" in the exact same way. That's pretty darn contagious!

See also this piece that links to Wilson's letter to the WaPo ombudsman. No mention of not seeing forged documents there.

The last paragraph of his letter is hilarious. It's a perfect example of the Chewbacca Defense.

The facts surrounding my trip remain the same. I traveled to Niger and found it unlikely that Iraq had attempted to purchase several hundred tons of yellowcake uranium. In his 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush referred to Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium "from Africa." Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Between March 2003 and July 2003, the administration refused to acknowledge that it had known for more than a year that the claim on uranium sales from Niger had been discredited, until the day after my article in the New York Times.

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