USA

Msnbc: White House Striking Back?
WASHINGTON - They were just 16 words in the State of the Union address -
words that we now know were misleading. And this man, retired career
diplomat Joe Wilson tried to warn the administration of just that nearly a
year before the speech. Now in an NBC News exclusive, Wilson says his
family is the subject of a smear campaign. Wilson tells NBC News the White
House deliberately leaked his wife's identity as a covert CIA operative,
damaging her future career and compromising past missions after he
criticized the administration on "Meet the Press" and in the New York
Times. He told me, "It's a shot across the bow to those who might step
forward, those unnamed analysts who said they were pressured by the White
House for example would think twice about having their own families names
being dragged through this particular mud."

Pakistan Dawn:
Ex-US envoy says govt targeting him
WASHINGTON, July 22: A former US ambassador who earlier this month alleged
the US government exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Iraq, accused the
White House on Tuesday of trying to punish and discredit him for his
outspoken remarks. In an interview with NBC television, former ambassador
Joseph Wilson alleged that press leaks from the White House have attempted
to malign him in an effort to dissuade others from speaking out.