A failed cover-up?
That is David Ignatius theory of the Libby case. It has one huge problem.
The White House had nothing to cover-up. There was nothing inaccurate about the Presiodent's statement and facts have emerged that demonstrate that it was Joe Wilson who was withholding relevant information when he made his bogus claims against the President's State of the Union address that mentioned that British Intelligence had learned that Iraq had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium in Niger. In fact Wilson discovered the same thing on his tea drinking trip.
Critics like Ignatius keep acting as if the President's statement was an assertion of fact on a purchase rather than an assertion of fact on an attempted purchase. This is then conflated into a cover-up rather than an attempt to get the truth out. Part of that truth is that Joe Wilson's wife got him that gig and that he was not sent at the request of the Vice President.
Ignatius ignores this false and misleading statement in the Wilson op-ed that motivated the actions by the Vice President's office. It was an intentional and pernicious lie to suggest Wilson had greater authority than he had and to also suggest that the very man who had sent him had ingored his message. It was this big lie that was the major concern. There was no reason to be concerned about the yellow cake story because it was true.
The White House had nothing to cover-up. There was nothing inaccurate about the Presiodent's statement and facts have emerged that demonstrate that it was Joe Wilson who was withholding relevant information when he made his bogus claims against the President's State of the Union address that mentioned that British Intelligence had learned that Iraq had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium in Niger. In fact Wilson discovered the same thing on his tea drinking trip.
Critics like Ignatius keep acting as if the President's statement was an assertion of fact on a purchase rather than an assertion of fact on an attempted purchase. This is then conflated into a cover-up rather than an attempt to get the truth out. Part of that truth is that Joe Wilson's wife got him that gig and that he was not sent at the request of the Vice President.
Ignatius ignores this false and misleading statement in the Wilson op-ed that motivated the actions by the Vice President's office. It was an intentional and pernicious lie to suggest Wilson had greater authority than he had and to also suggest that the very man who had sent him had ingored his message. It was this big lie that was the major concern. There was no reason to be concerned about the yellow cake story because it was true.
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