POLITICAL INTRIGUE COMES TO VALLEY EX-ENVOY WILSON LECTURES ON 'LEAKS'.Byline: Brad A. Greenberg Staff Writer NORTHRIDGE - Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson has been called everything from a courageous whistle-blower to a gutless traitor in his quest to hold the Bush administration accountable for "misleading" the American public about Iraq. But Wilson's case got a shot in the arm Thursday when just hours before he addressed students at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , news broke from Washington that President George W. Bush had authorized a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to leak classified pre-war intelligence. What was supposed to be just another lecture and book-signing stop for Wilson became a public opportunity to breathe fresh life into the Iraq debate. The Bush administration has already been accused of leaking the identity of CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). operative Valerie Plame, who happens to be Wilson's wife. And while Cheney's aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, did not testify that Bush ordered Plame's outing, Libby's statements to prosecutors raised the question. "If in fact the president and the vice president are dragged into this, it turns a political scandal into a constitutional crisis," Wilson said before his lecture to CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge students. "I hope they were smarter than that. I have to tell you, in all candor, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that they were. < Wilson claims his wife's career was ruined - and her life endangered - as an act of "pure revenge." Knowingly revealing a covert agent is a federal crime. Conversely, the president has the authority to declassify de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas intelligence, which is essentially what occurred when Libby leaked it to The New York Times. That directive came after the fall of Baghdad The Fall of Baghdad may refer to the following:
No weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or had - or have - been found and, on July 6, 2003, The New York Times published a scathing column titled "What I Did Not Find in Africa." Penned by Joseph C. Wilson IV, the column effectively debunked a key tenet of the Bush administration's justification for invading Iraq: namely, that Saddam Hussein was actively seeking a key ingredient for nuclear weapons in Africa. It remains unclear whether administration officials knew Plame was a covert agent. Presidential adviser Karl Rove has been identified as providing Plame's name to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper, though he has not been charged. And Libby has been indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for perjury during the leak investigation. The CSUN lecture, which was open only to students and faculty members, had been planned for months but Thursday's news from Washington caused organizers to be a bit more frenzied. But students welcomed the serendipity serendipity happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else. . "This is the headline news of the evening. It is very bizarre when that happens at your campus or in your neck of the woods," said Leanne Vincent, student leadership coordinator. "Whatever it is, it's a great learning experience." brad.greenberg(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3634 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) WILSON (2 -- color) Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on hand at CSUN on Thursday for a lecture and question-and-answer session. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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