"What he calls a "smear campaign" against the couple has catalyzed his transformation from nonpartisan diplomat — he worked closely with the first President Bush and his top aides during the first gulf war — to anti-Bush activist. … To have such a carefully nurtured identity shattered in a single stroke was traumatic, Mr. Wilson said. "Your whole network of personal relationships over 20 years are compromised," he said. … Despite conservatives' efforts to portray him as a left-wing extremist, he insisted he remained a centrist at heart. But after his tangle with the current administration, he admits "it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for a Republican, even for dog catcher.""
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Scott Shane, in "Private Spy and Public Spouse Live at Center of Leak Case" in The New York Times (5 July 2007)
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Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph C. Wilson (November 6, 1949 – September 27, 2019) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome and Principe from 1992 to 1995.
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