gop smear of joe wilson continues

last night on npr's news & notes, a gop strategist said a "bipartisan" report of the senate intel committee concluded that wilson was "less than forthcoming." the statement went unchallenged.

that view has been echoed and re-echoed in the usual big lie fashion. here's what the washington post had on march 7, which was not the first time that publication presented similar opinions:

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of these claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson.

in fact, what the "bipartisan investigation" supposedly "established" appeared only in an "additional view" attached to the report by just 3 senators, all gop, and rejected by the dems. here's what wikipedia has on it:

In the first "additional view" attached to the report, Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS), joined by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Christopher Bond (R-MO), presents two conclusions that Democratic members of the Committee were unwilling to include in the report, even though, according to Roberts, "there was no dispute with the underlying facts." Those two conclusions related to the actions of Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who was sent to Niger in 2002 to investigate allegations that the Iraqi government was attempting to purchase "yellowcake" uranium, presumably as part of an attempt to revive Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The two conclusions were that the plan to send Wilson to investigate the Niger allegation was suggested by Wilson's wife, a CIA employee, and that in his later public statements criticizing the Bush administration, Wilson included information he had learned from press accounts, misrepresenting it as firsthand knowledge.

see, even the "liberal" media help perpetuate lies by letting them slip thru without contradiction, so they get said over and over again, making an almost indelible impression in our memories.