The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
With a new investigative epilogue by a prominent Washington journalist and a new foreword by the author. Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more than two decades of foreign service to our country in this unprecedented look at the life of an American diplomat and an unabashed account of policies that sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed. As the last American official to meet with Saddam before Desert Storm, Wilson successfully parried the dictator's threats to use American hostages as human shields against U.S. bombing. Yet today he finds himself battling threats from his own government because he called a lie a lie. When President Bush all…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7867-1551-0
- EAN: 9780786715510
- Produktnummer: 20933238
- Verlag: Publicaffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D4.2 cm 580 g
- Gewicht: 580
Über den Autor
Joseph Wilson, a political centrist, was a career United States diplomat from 1976 to 1998. During Democratic and Republican administrations he served in various diplomatic posts throughout Africa and eventually as ambassador to Gabon. He was the acting ambassador to Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. In February 2002, as special envoy to Niger he investigated reports of Iraq's attempt to buy nuclear material there. In October 2003, Wilson received the Ron Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling from the Fertel Foundation and the Nation Institute. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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