To do that they entered into verbal agreements and electronic modfication of the tapes, plus destruction of all paper diaries, etc.

Do you think that gets past the giggle test??

"Yellow cake" was an issue all through the previous 15 months. Wilson had testified, been debried, etc. Plus, he had went to the his friends at the DOS and claimed Bush wrong.NY T Link

So his anger was two fold. First that his wife had  made him go on a trip that he thought to be below his station, and then no one was paying him any attention.

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Mark Rich was pardoned after his wife donated $1,000,000 to the Clinton library. At the time of the pardon he was a fugitive from US authorities..

Carlos Vignali was pardoned after serving 6 years of a 15 year sentance for cocane traficing.

Almon Braswell was pardoned for mail fraud and perjury convictions even while a federal investigation for money laundering and tax evasion was on-going.

Both Vignali and Braswell were represented by the brother of Hillary Clinton, Hugh Rodman. They each paid him approximately $200,000 to represent them in this matter.

The previous were about money. Perhaps the most odious was:

On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.[3

It was claimed that Clinton did so at the request of a NYC politican who said it would help Hillary obtain the PR vote. This has never been proven, but:

The U.S. House Committee on Government Reform held an investigation on the matter, but the Justice Department prevented FBI officials from testifying.[8] President Clinton cited executive privilege for his refusal to turn over some documents to Congress related to his decision to offer clemency to members of the FALN terrorist group.

COLMES: I keep hearing about, as you said -- and I'm sure he's got a lovely family and may be a very personable person -- but you talk about besmirching of somebody and their family, isn't that what this administration did to Joe Wilson?

GINGRICH: No. Joe Wilson is a liar.

COLMES: Based on what?

GINGRICH: Joe Wilson is a man who lied about his report. Joe Wilson is a man who was reported by the Senate Intelligence Committee to have lied. Joe Wilson lied about who sent him to Niger.

That's pretty blunt.

Mr. Wilson did not stop there, though. He had learned that eight months after his trip, some documents about the alleged yellowcake transactions had shown up -- but that they had proved to be forgeries. He told three different reporters that he personally had checked out the documents and found them to be forgeries. He said these forged documents were part of the basis of his conclusion, upon returning from his mission, that the yellowcake story was false. He said the administration deliberately ignored his report.

Mr. Wilson lied. The documents did not even appear until eight months after his mission ended. (He later admitted as much.) They formed no basis for his own report. And the documents had nothing to do with the claim made by the British government and repeated by President Bush.

This link is to pis* off sailor.

The former ambassador also told Committee staff that he was the source of a Washington Post article ("CIA Did Not Share Doubt on Iraq Data; Bush Used Report of Uranium Bid," June 12, 2003) which said, "among the Envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because `the dates were wrong and the names were wrong." Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong" when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports. The former ambassador said that he may have "misspoken" to the reporter when he said he concluded the documents were "forged." He also said he may have become confused about his own recollection after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported in March 2003 that the names and dates on the documents were not correct and may have thought he had seen the names himself. The former ambassador reiterated that he had been able to collect the names of the government officials which should have been on the documents

Senate Intelliegence Committee Report

And this:

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.

Vallely and Wilson both were contracted by Fox News to discuss the war on terror as the U.S. faced off with Iraq in the run-up to the spring 2003 invasion.

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."

Vallely and Wilson both were contracted by Fox News to discuss the war on terror as the U.S. faced off with Iraq in the run-up to the spring 2003 invasion.

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.