Here is the surprise! An interview with Joe Wilson by the News Junkie!

This interview is now being posted on Truthout.org today. Jason not only interviewed former USA David Iglesias but also former Ambassador Joe Wilson. I was sent the link exclusively to watch. Jason did a wonderful job interviewing Mr. Wilson. As we learn Libby's fate on Tuesday, Joe Wilson gives some of his thoughts of his current civil lawsuit and his wife's battle with the CIA regarding her book release.

Here is the link:

http://truthout.vo.llnwd.net/o16/Projects/Troy/WilsonINTVedit1.mov

or click here.

Make sure you have Quick Time to view the video. And here is Jason's article:

Jason Leopold An Interview With Joseph Wilson
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t Report
Monday 04 June 2007

In a recent interview, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson told me that heand his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, both strongly feel that Vice PresidentDick Cheney is behind efforts to block her from discussing her work for theCentral Intelligence Agency before 2002 in a memoir to be published inOctober. The memoir is titled "Fair Game." Plame Wilson's undercover CIAidentity was leaked to a handful of reporters by senior Bush administrationofficials. She and her husband believe the leak was retaliation after hespoke out against the White House concerning Iraq.

In July 2003, Wilson wrote an op-ed article in the New York Times, accusingthe Bush administration of twisting prewar Iraq intelligence in an effort towin public support for a US-led invasion of that country.

Upon reviewing her manuscript, the CIA told Plame Wilson she cannot disclosethat she worked for the agency prior to 2002 - even though it is publicinformation and has been entered into the Congressional Record. Last week,Plame Wilson and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, sued the CIA in USDistrict Court in New York for unconstitutionally interfering with herrights to free speech.

"This is Richard Cheney's last attempt to try to stifle free speech in thiscountry, and we'll beat the son of a bitch on that too, if we have to,"Wilson told me in a 30-minute interview at his office in Santa Fe, NewMexico. "We will find the work-around to make sure this happens - that shewill be able to tell her story, so that somebody other than Dick Cheney,Scooter Libby, Rich Armitage and Karl Rove can talk about her."

Wilson and his wife have filed a civil suit against top administrationofficials - among them Vice President Dick Cheney, White House PoliticalAdviser Karl Rove and Cheney's former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter"Libby, for allegedly violating his and Plame Wilson's civil rights when theydisclosed her covert CIA status to the media. The defendants have arguedthat the lawsuit should be dismissed on grounds that it was a "policydispute." However, Wilson told me he believed that the judge presiding overthe case felt the case had merit and took issue with assertions made byCheney's attorneys that Cheney, in his capacity as vice president, wasentitled to absolute immunity from lawsuits.

"I think we came away feeling that the judge clearly saw that a wrong hadbeen committed," Wilson told me. The judge is expected to render a decisionin less than a month on whether the civil suit can move forward. "The judgewas skeptical of this notion of absolute immunity. He made the point, Ithink repeatedly, that absolute immunity was a unique feature of the Officeof the President, and not necessarily of the Office of the Vice President."

Libby was convicted earlier this year of four counts of perjury, obstructionof justice and lying to a grand jury about how he discovered that PlameWilson was a CIA employee, and whether he discussed her role at the agencywith the media. He is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.

Wilson's stinging rebuke of the administration's reliance on what laterturned out to be a set of forged documents angered senior Bushadministration officials. The documents purportedly revealed that Iraq wasattempting to obtain uranium from Niger to build an atomic bomb. Wilson hadtraveled to the African country of Niger in February 2002 on behalf of theCIA to investigate the allegations. He returned to the US and told a CIAbriefer that the claims were unfounded. President Bush cited the claims asfact in his January 2003 State of the Union speech.

A federal investigation led by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald laterfound that numerous White Officials had retaliated against and sought todiscredit Joseph Wilson for publicly claiming that the administration hadmanipulated Iraq intelligence by telling a handful of elite Washington, DCreporters that Wilson's investigation into the Niger claims could not betrusted. The administration told the reporters that Valerie Plame Wilsonworked at the CIA and had arranged to send her husband to Niger. Theofficials suggested that the trip was the result of nepotism. Plame Wilson testified before Congress this year that she had had no role in selecting her husband for the mission.