CNN interview with Joe Wilson: transcript (May 4)

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HEMMER: As a career diplomat, Ambassador Joe Wilson knows something about the politics of truth. In fact, it's the title of his new book, which blasts the Bush administration for allegedly leaking his wife's secret CIA identity after he challenged the pre-war evidence about Iraq. Wilson believes he knows who is responsible for an alleged White House smear campaign.

Ambassador Joe Wilson our guest here on AMERICAN MORNING.

Good morning to you. Nice to have you back here.

Hi, Bill. Good to be here.

HEMMER: It's been some time since we have talked. You said this to a newspaper on Sunday, and other newspapers we should point out. The most damning thing I learned while living through the swirl of rumors after the attack on my wife and me was that the conspiracy to destroy us was most likely conceived and carried out within the office of the vice president of the United States by people at the very center of power. Who in the vice president's office?

AMB. JOSEPH WILSON, AUTHOR, "THE POLITICS OF WAR": Well, what I have learned from people who have been willing to talk to me, who are close to the investigation and close to the White House, and some of whom have actually printed this, is that in the office of the vice president, most likely his chief of staff, if not the vice president himself, his chief of staff, being Scooter Libby, began to do what they call a work-up on me, which is get everything. It's an intelligence operation to do learn everything they could about me as early as March of 2003.

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1. Much obliged.

Thanks for posting this.

Wilson will save us.