Reply #22: McGovern article on TomPaine

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050719/cheney_and_plame.php
"Joseph Wilson had been around long enough to know what to expect. Moreover, the White House apparently made it very clear that they would make him pay if he went public. Just three weeks before The New York Times published Wilson’s op-ed “What I Did Not Find in Africa,” he and I shared keynoting duties at a conference on Iraq. Wilson told me then that he was about to publish, adding “They are going to come after me big-time. I don’t know exactly how, but they are going to do it.”

It has now become clear that Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was as active as Rove in spreading the word about the Wilsons when the story broke in July 2003. Surprise, surprise."