By David E. Sanger and David Johnston
The New York Times
Tuesday 11 March 2006
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Washington - From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was
no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case
that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.
But now White House officials, and specifically President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, have been pitched back
into the center of the nearly three-year controversy, this time because of a prosecutor's court filing in the case that
asserts there was "a strong desire by many, including multiple people in the White House," to undermine Mr. Wilson.
The new assertions by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, have put administration officials on the spot in a
way they have not been for months, as attention in the leak case seems to be shifting away from the White House to the
pretrial procedural skirmishing in the perjury and obstruction charges against Mr. Cheney's former chief of staff, I.
Lewis Libby Jr.
Mr. Fitzgerald's filing talks not of an effort to level with Americans but of "a plan to discredit, punish or seek
revenge against Mr. Wilson." It concludes, "It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove
the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson.' "
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Three years after the fall of Baghdad to US forces, Washington is abuzz
about new reports that the administration of President George W. Bush is
preparing to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.
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"Once you review this material there should be no doubt that President Bush is a bald-faced liar and used his office to
attack Joe Wilson for trying to ensure the American people were told the truth about Iraq and its alleged efforts to buy
uranium in West Africa."
ENDS