I just got off the phone with former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and in our conversation he angrily disputed Robert Novak's latest assertion about the outing of his CIA operative wife, adding that if the columnist isn't going to confession, "he's going straight to Hell."
Wilson's angry over a story today in The Hill which quoted Novak saying that Wilson did not forcefully object when Novak spoke to him before publishing his now infamous column naming his wife, Valerie Plame, prompting a Federal investigation and getting Scooter Libby carted off to jail.
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"He's lying," Wilson responded a few moments ago when I reached him on his cell phone.
In fact, Wilson claims, the two men were talking because he had called Novak explicitly to complain that the columnist had been naming his wife in private conversations throughout Washington. He hadn't even called to talk about what Novak was writing, he claims.
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"How could I confirm or deny this without acknowledging something?" continued Wilson, who's frequently duked it out publicly with Novak over Plamegate. "I hope Novak is going to confession because otherwise he's going straight to Hell. Because he's a chronic liar."
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