EXCLUSIVE: Interview with a Liar

July 14: In an exclusive interview, ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson talks with NBC News' Jamie Gangel. Wilson is husband of Valerie Plame, the former CIA staffer exposed after a leak to the press.

I don't watch the Today show. Really, I don't; but sometimes I happen to catch a glimpse of it when I turn on TV in the morning and NBC was the last channel we had on the night before.

That's what happened this morning when I noticed that there was going to be an EXCLUSIVE interview with Joe Wilson.

I couldn't resist staying tuned.Transcript and Video

As the EXCLUSIVE progressed, I got the feeling that Gangel was Wilson's PR agent. She provided a forum for him to perpetuate his lies and spin without a single challenge as to his "inconsistencies" on the matter of his Niger mission and the supposedly undisclosed identity of his wife Plame, Valerie Plame.

Gangel:
1) "It's now public that President Bush's top adviser, Karl Rove, did talk to at least one reporter about your wife. But Rove insists he never used her name and that he did not know that she was undercover. That he did not knowingly give her up."

2) "[Rove] says he also did not know that she was an undercover operative."

3) "What do you think of Karl Rove?"

4) "What does your wife think of Karl Rove?"

5) "What does she think of all this week?"

6) "Your critics have said that this is partisan on your part, that you are part of a Democratic attempt to discredit Iraq policy."

7) "You are a Democrat?"

8) "Do you and your wife believe the perpetrators of this will ever be punished?"

9) "Bottom line. What do you think the White House should do now?"

10) "Do you think even though what Karl Rove did may not have broken a law — do you think from what you know he should be fired?"

As usual, Wilson continued his pattern of attacking President Bush, and spoke out against Karl Rove. As usual, Wilson talked about Plame being unhappy with all this attention.

What a load!

If Plame didn't want attention, if the couple sincerely didn't have an axe to grind and desperately sought to stay out of the spotlight, why would Wilson do any interviews?

Following his SOP, he intended to embarrass the President.

Wilson said:

The president said in — in the middle of 2004 that he would fire anybody who was caught leaking in this matter. Karl Rove has now been caught. The president has said repeatedly, I am a man of my word. The president really should stand up and prove to the American people that his word is his bond and fire Karl Rove.

Gangel ended her report with:Today asked the White House if they wanted to respond to Wilson, but they said they stand with their "no comment" while this is under investigation.

The question now is what are the chances that Karl Rove will be fired, or resign. I think at this point no one knows, but Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank said this: "Washington is Karl Rove's world, we just live in it!" A lot of people in this town think that sums it up.

Gangel's segment segued into a conversation between Katie Couric and Tim Russert. The lib spin continued, without any mention of Wilson's lies, his nonexistent credibility.
Read "Joseph Wilson, Liar" on Power Line

Read "Joseph Wilson, Liar: Part II" on Power Line

Read "Joe Wilson: Lying Liar who Tells Lies--A Reminder" on RedState.org
FOX explains:
In Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth, he writes that he and his future wife both returned from overseas assignments in June 1997. Neither spouse was again stationed outside the United States, according to the book; they appear to have remained in Washington, D.C., where they married and became parents of twins.

Six years later, in July 2003, Plame's name was revealed by columnist Robert Novak.

The column's date is important because the law against unmasking the identities of U.S. spies says a "covert agent" must have been on an overseas assignment "within the last five years." The assignment also must be long-term, not a short trip or temporary post, two experts on the law say. Wilson's book makes numerous references to the couple's life in Washington over the six years up to July 2003.

Victoria Toensing, former counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee who helped write the law protecting the identities of intelligence agents, told FOX News on Thursday that "no, in a nutshell," Rove did not commit a crime. Plame's status at the time of the revelation is key to that conclusion, she said.

"That's a very big question," Toensing said, referring to exactly what status Plame had within the CIA at the time of the alleged "leak." "When did she leave her foreign assignment?"

If it was in 1997, as noted in Wilson's book, Toensing said, "she would not have even have to come to the definition of a 'covert agent' under the law how we wrote it."

The Dems' recent strategy of creating a scandal out of nothing and demonizing an individual to indirectly demonize Bush has backfired before; and in all likelihood, it will backfire again.

The MSM are exposed as liberal propaganda mouthpieces and the Dems are shown to have nothing but baseless outrage to offer the American people.