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That’s the question that superprosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald didn’t answer for us. Thankfully, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely has an answer. In an interview with WorldNetDaily, Vallely says that it was (drumroll please) Joe Wilson that outed Valerie Plame. Here’s part of the WND interview:

Vallely says, according to his recollection, Wilson mentioned his wife’s job in the spring of 2002, more than a year before Robert Novak’s July 14, 2003, column identified her, citing senior administration officials, as “an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.” “He was rather open about his wife working at the CIA,” said Vallely, who retired in 1991 as the Army’s deputy commanding general in the Pacific. Vallely made his claim in an interview Thursday night on the ABC radio network’s John Batchelor show.
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Vallely said, citing CIA colleagues, that in addition to his conversations with Wilson, the ambassador was proud to introduce Plame at cocktail parties and other social events around Washington as his CIA wife. “That was pretty common knowledge,” he said. “She’s been out there on the Washington scene many years.” If Plame were a covert agent at the time, Vallely said, “he would not have paraded her around as he did. This whole thing has become the biggest non-story I know,” he concluded, “and all created by Joe Wilson.”

In addition to calling Amb. Wilson’s credibility into question, again, it calls into question Patrick Fitzgerald’s credibility as an investigator. Remember his press conference quote:

“Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified. Not only was it classified, but it was not widely known outside the intelligence community. Valerie Wilson’s friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life.

Before the Fitzmas Day Letdown, Chuck Schumer went out of his way to tell us that Fitzgerald was beyond reproach, that he was an investigator’s investigator. I immediately questioned Fitzgerald’s investigatorial bona fides. Now Gen. Vallely gives us something substantial to base our beliefs on.

How can we trust Fitzgerald’s credentials when he doesn’t call Wilson or Plame to testify in front of the Grand Jury. Or why he didn’t call Andrea Mitchell? After all, Mitchell was asked on CNBC’s “Capitol Report,” Oct. 3, 2003, how widely it was known in Washington that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA.

“It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger,” she said.

An investigator that can get up in front of the nation and tell us that “it was not widely known outside the intelligence community” only to have Andrea Mitchell contradict him isn’t a “prosecutor’s prosecutor” or beyond reproach. He’s ordinary.

Though the Agenda Media have tied their fate to Amb. Wilson, he’s still the same political hack with a backwards view of the world. You’d think they would’ve learned after Mary Mapes and Bill Burkett, and after ‘Mother’ Sheehan and others. They haven’t and they’re embarassing themselves right out of business.

Cross-posted at Let Freedom Ring

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