Wilson: I Made Up Rove Leak Allegation
Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson admitted Monday
morning that he fabricated a key part of his allegation that the White House
deliberately blew his wife's cover as a CIA weapons analyst.
Wilson has accused top Bush political strategist Karl Rove of leaking the
name to columnist Robert Novak, telling a Seattle audience last month that he
wanted "to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White
House in handcuffs."
But he told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday that he got "carried away"
and made up the Rove allegation out of thin air.
"In one speech I gave out in Seattle not too long ago, I mentioned the name
Karl Rove," Wilson told GMA. "I think I was probably carried away by the spirit
of the moment."
Wilson then confessed, "I don't have any knowledge that Karl Rove himself was
either the leaker or the authorizer of the leak."
Wilson insisted, however, "I have great confidence that, at a minimum, [Rove]
condoned it and certainly did nothing to shut it down."
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