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Wilson Book Will Reveal White House Leak
Publisher's Weekly Newsletter
Tuesday 02 March 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/030304J.shtml

The much-awaited May book from nuclear expert Joseph Wilson will disclose who in the White House he says leaked information that led to the outing of his wife as a CIA agent, PW has learned.

Sources say the embargoed title, The Politics of Truth, from Carroll & Graf, will reveal who tipped off syndicated columnist Robert Novak in July that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA--a felony punishable by as many as ten years in prison--and the larger circumstances around the leak. The matter is the subject of a grand-jury investigation that has seen Novak, Wilson and a number of high-profile administration members questioned.

Asked about such disclosures in the book, C&G editor Philip Turner did not deny that the book was specific. "I think readers who want the personality side will not be disappointed. He lays it on the line." As for the author's candor on the leak's larger circumstances, Turner says, "Without going too far, he sketches out a scenario of events that is convincing and plausible and very personal." Turner says the book has been vetted carefully and that the publisher is prepared to defend it.

The book, which will come out May 20, will discuss Wilson's career as a diplomat in Africa and devote three chapters to the time he served as the last American diplomat in Baghdad, in 1990. But the juiciest part remains the name game: Who provided the leak, and how. Novak cited two senior administration officials in his July column but has declined to turn them over to investigators. Wilson has been silent since the grand jury convened.

Wilson, a retired ambassador, came to prominence with a NY Times op-ed in July about the investigation he made on behalf of the Bush administration over a claim, first made in the State of the Union address in 2003, that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium from Niger. In the piece, titled "What I Didn't Find In Africa," Wilson said that he found no evidence that the transaction had been attempted. Several weeks later, Novak reported that Wilson's wife was CIA. Another grand jury is meeting over the Niger findings.

A first-person account that Wilson is writing himself, Politics of Truth is expected to draw heavy attention, and has already lined up media such as Dateline. Turner signed it up for an advance reportedly only in the low five-figures at the end of September, just days before a criminal referral was given that empanelled a grand jury. In the book, Wilson reportedly describes the last eight months as an "existential roller-coaster that has not yet come to rest."--Steven Zeitchik
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