Opinion: Joe’s Journeys

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Joseph Wilson has decided not to endorse a Republican for president in the current campaign.

The former ambassador whose wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA and may or may not have been responsible for dispatching her husband to Niger to check on reports that Saddam Hussein may or may not have been trying to obtain nuclear materials, which led to a big controversy about whether the Bush administration was or was not trying to get even with Wilson for a critical op-ed article he wrote but then someone leaked Plame’s name to columnist Robert Novak who printed it and started another controversy about who leaked the name of someone who may or may not have been a covert agent which focused on Scooter Libby who, it turns out, didn’t leak the name but got convicted of perjury anyway and had his 30-month prison sentence commuted by President Bush who let the fine and probation stand, has endorsed Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.

That endorsement news was not leaked today by Richard Armitage. It came out in a news release quoting Wilson as saying, ‘I’ve known Hillary Clinton for a decade. She is the one candidate who, in my judgment, understands the need to get Americans out of harm’s way and to move this to a political process.’

The same news release quoted Clinton as saying, ‘I’m so pleased that we share the goal of ending this war so that we can begin bringing our troops home safely.’

Wilson, who may now be a future ambassador too, is author of the book with the longest title and most colons of the current presidential campaign: ‘The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir.’

--Andrew Malcolm