Ambassador Joe Wilson’s novel, The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat’s memoir, was due out today. The NYTimes the damned thing today. You can read that by clicking on the cover, here:
He promised that he would disclose the name of the person in the White House who leaked his CIA operative wife’s name, Valerie Plame, to columnist Robert Novak and according to the AP, he names three of them: Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the NSC’s Elliott Abrams, and Karl Rove:
“The workup on me that turned up the information on Valerie was shared with Karl Rove, who then circulated it in administration and neoconservative circles,” Wilson writes.
White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan had previously ruled all three men out as possible sources.
Wilson’s motivation? Book sales, of course, but he wants to “frog-march” the Bush Administration out of the White House. He runs with Rand Beers and Dick Clarke, and has spoken at MoveOn.org events. He’s one of the mini-assassins of the organized ABB crowd.
We’ll find out soon enough if it contains anything new or interesting.
