NEW PLAMEGATE E-BOOK WILL APPEAR ON KEY ANNIVERSARY
Los Angeles – Joe Wilson: What He Didn’t Find in Africa by Jon Krampner, a new e-book about one of the most infamous episodes of the Bush/Cheney administration, will be released on July 6, 2015.
In addition to being the birthday of George W. Bush (happy 69th birthday, George!), it’s also the 12th anniversary of Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV’s famous New York Times op-ed article, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.”
That article was the first major public attack by an establishment figure on the lies the Bush/Cheney administration used to sucker the US into the Iraq War. It ignited a political, media and legal firestorm and led to the vindictive outing of Valerie Plame, Wilson’s wife, as a CIA undercover spy devoted to protecting the United States from weapons of mass destruction. It also led to the criminal conviction of one of the highest-ranking public officials in American history: Scooter Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty on two counts of perjury, one of obstruction of justice and one of making false statements.
The 9,000-word (about 36 typed double-spaced pages) e-book provides a crisp, concise summary of a complex case in which high-ranking government officials deliberately jeopardized U.S. national security out of pique for having their lies about the need for the Iraq War exposed. They then proceeded, with the help of the mainstream media, to throw generous helpings of monkey dust in the public’s face to conceal their dishonorable and illegal behavior.
“The virtue of "What He Didn't Find in Africa" is that it’s a good, brief summary of a remarkably complex case,” says Krampner. “In an effort to cover up its criminal wrongdoing, the George W. Bush administration skulked around in the shadows and launched a complex counter-factual counter-narrative about its role in lying us into the Iraq War and violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. This e-book helps arm anyone who wants to punch holes in Bushco's fabulism about Plamegate with the facts they need to do so.”
The e-book is based on two lengthy 2014 interviews with Ambassador Wilson and e-mail exchanges with him, Valerie Plame and Marcy Wheeler, who runs the emptywheel blog and is the author of “Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy.” Krampner also did extensive research into the case.
Joe Wilson: What He Didn’t Find in Africa will be available through Smashwords and wherever better e-books are sold.
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In addition to being the birthday of George W. Bush (happy 69th birthday, George!), it’s also the 12th anniversary of Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV’s famous New York Times op-ed article, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.”
That article was the first major public attack by an establishment figure on the lies the Bush/Cheney administration used to sucker the US into the Iraq War. It ignited a political, media and legal firestorm and led to the vindictive outing of Valerie Plame, Wilson’s wife, as a CIA undercover spy devoted to protecting the United States from weapons of mass destruction. It also led to the criminal conviction of one of the highest-ranking public officials in American history: Scooter Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty on two counts of perjury, one of obstruction of justice and one of making false statements.
The 9,000-word (about 36 typed double-spaced pages) e-book provides a crisp, concise summary of a complex case in which high-ranking government officials deliberately jeopardized U.S. national security out of pique for having their lies about the need for the Iraq War exposed. They then proceeded, with the help of the mainstream media, to throw generous helpings of monkey dust in the public’s face to conceal their dishonorable and illegal behavior.
“The virtue of "What He Didn't Find in Africa" is that it’s a good, brief summary of a remarkably complex case,” says Krampner. “In an effort to cover up its criminal wrongdoing, the George W. Bush administration skulked around in the shadows and launched a complex counter-factual counter-narrative about its role in lying us into the Iraq War and violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. This e-book helps arm anyone who wants to punch holes in Bushco's fabulism about Plamegate with the facts they need to do so.”
The e-book is based on two lengthy 2014 interviews with Ambassador Wilson and e-mail exchanges with him, Valerie Plame and Marcy Wheeler, who runs the emptywheel blog and is the author of “Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy.” Krampner also did extensive research into the case.
Joe Wilson: What He Didn’t Find in Africa will be available through Smashwords and wherever better e-books are sold.
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