{"id":3455,"date":"2005-07-14T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/14\/questions-for-lyin-joe-wilson\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T01:11:24","slug":"questions-for-lyin-joe-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/14\/questions-for-lyin-joe-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Lyin’ Joe Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tVolokhtician Jim Lindgren has some good questions for Lyin’ Joe:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here it would be good to ask Wilson whether he thought that by lying about what he found in Niger and what he told the CIA and how he was selected, he was gambling with his wife\u2019s safety. How could he be sure that people would know that Plame was a covert agent, or that there was a law against revealing her identity? Perhaps someone might have reasonably believed that they were correcting misimpressions that Wilson himself had created. Did Wilson realize that he had put the Administration in something analogous to a Catch-22?: Wilson can lie about how he was hired but the Administration can\u2019t correct his lie without outing his wife. Did Wilson consciously decide to gamble with his wife\u2019s safety by lying in a way that would be hard for the Administration to correct?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will the lapdog imperialist media ask them? I doubt it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volokhtician Jim Lindgren has some good questions for Lyin’ Joe: Here it would be good to ask Wilson whether he thought that by lying about what he found in Niger and what he told the CIA and how he was selected, he was gambling with his wife\u2019s safety. How could he be sure that people … Continue reading “Questions for Lyin’ Joe Wilson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-TJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}