Joseph C. Wilson

Joseph C. Wilson IV (born November 61949) was a United States career foreign service officer and diplomat between 1976 and 1998. He achieved wide notoriety with an op-ed essayhttp://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm published on July 62003, in the New York Times in which he revealed his role investigating the Iraq Yellowcacke uranium WMD assertions of the Bush administration and accused Bush of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat" in order to justify war. Shortly thereafter, columnist Robert Novak noted the fact that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert CIA operative, a potentially criminal offense. Novak revealed the information in a July 142003 columnhttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml in which he said, "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report." Deputy Attorney General James Comey (then Attorney General John Ashcroft having recused himself from the case) named Patrick J. Fitzgerald as a special prosecutor to determine who was involved with the leak.

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November 6 - 1949 - United States - Foreign service - Diplomat - 1976 - 1998 - July 6 - 2003 - New York Times - Yellowcacke uranium WMD assertions - Robert Novak - Valerie Plame - CIA - July 14 - Niger - John Ashcroft - Recused - Patrick J. Fitzgerald - Special prosecutor

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