Army general says on 'Hannity & Colmes' he has 'no personal vendetta' in CIA leak
Calling it "a potentially explosive development in the CIA leak investigation," Fox News analysts Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes grilled retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely tonight about his claim that Ambassador Joseph Wilson "outed" his wife as a CIA agent in 2002, a year before her identity was exposed by a political columnist.
"There's no personal vendetta here," Vallely told the pair, "I want to make that clear. It all came about questioning why the special prosecutor did not include in his inquiry bring under oath Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame or anybody in the CIA as far as we know, so the question is out there to be answered."
The interview on Fox News was the first time Vallely addressed the revelation on national television. A search of Lexis-Nexis newspaper archives reveals major media outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times and Washington Post have not reported a single story about Wilson's alleged 2002 disclosure.
As we talked about our families, he did not say she was an agent, only that she was employed by the [Central Intelligence] Agency," Vallely reiterated on TV tonight.
"WorldNetDaily and I both were absolutely a little shocked on Saturday evening when we got an e-mail from Joe Wilson's lawyers in Washington really asking us to 100 percent retract our statements that were made on the radio show," Vallely told Fox. "I'm not gonna back down on the fact we had a casual conversation. The fact is we were there together, we didn't agree on a lot of the things about the war, but we can agree to disagree."
When asked by Hannity if he knew if any other person was told by Wilson himself that his wife worked for the agency, Vallely responded, "I have friends back in Washington, D.C., [who] have told me that on the social circuit back there, the State Department, the social circles, also in CIA that it was very well known she worked for the agency. She was an analyst, not a covert agent."
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