Joseph Wilson, a U.S. diplomat who questioned the central underpinning for the i...
- Joseph Wilson, a U.S. diplomat who questioned the central underpinning for the invasion of Iraq under former President George W. Bush, died on Friday at the age of 69, the New York Times reported.
Wilson’s ex-wife, Valerie Plame, a former CIA officer now running for Congress, told the Times his cause of death was organ failure.Wilson served in several diplomatic posts during a 23-year career that began in 1976. Bush, in his State of the Union address in January 2003, made a case for the Iraq war by saying the country’s leader at the time, Saddam Hussein, had recently sought “significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
One week after Wilson’s op-ed was published, Plame’s work as a covert CIA operative was revealed by a Washington columnist, setting off an investigation into whether White House officials leaked her identity as retribution for his public criticisms.
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