"Playing dodge ball" Inside Politics - The Washington Times July 23, 2004

Source: The Washington Times - Inside Politics by Greg Pierce July 23, 2004

Playing dodge ball
"John Kerry ditched adviser Sandy Berger over the 'Socks Docs' probe, but is stonewalling questions about another national security adviser whose credibility is taking much flak — Bush-basher Joe Wilson," the New York Post's Deborah Orin writes.

"Wilson, a former U.S. diplomat, probably did more damage to Bush's credibility than any other Kerry ally by setting the stage for a year of charges that 'Bush lied' over whether Saddam Hussein was angling to get yellowcake uranium from the African nation of Niger. But a bipartisan Senate intelligence panel report painted Wilson as seriously truth-challenged — and even Wilson's own wife no longer backs up his story, according to a panel member," Miss Orin said.

"Wilson claimed his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, had nothing to do with getting him sent on a CIA mission to Niger, but she pleaded amnesia and told the panel's staff: 'I honestly do not recall if I suggested it to my boss.' "