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米国外交官ウィルソンの妻がCIAの諜報員であることを、コラムニストのロバート・ノバクに漏らしたことが明らかになったという話に強い関心を持っている人なら、ホワイトハウス職員ルイス・「スクーター」・リビーとエリオット・エイブラムスに驚かされることはないだろう。ウィルソンは、この2人を、自分に対する「組織的中傷」に係わっている可能性が最も高いと名指ししている。ウィルソンは今回の情報漏洩を、ブッシュ大統領の2004年度一般教書に反して、彼がニジェールからのイラクのウラン購入疑惑を否定する証拠を示したことへの報復だと考えているのだ。ウィルソンは、政治的な点数稼ぎのために国家の安全を脅かした彼らに対し、当然の怒りを表して反撃する。外交官として長年働き、最初の湾岸戦争が始まるまでの数ヶ月間バグダッドに滞在していた彼は、サダム・フセインに勇敢に立ち向かい、本書の最大の見どころの1つとなっている事実を暴露している。これを読めば、彼のおよそ30年にわたる外交官としての経歴についての、鮮明で興味深い報告書であることが分かる。ウィルソンは、視覚に訴えた説得力のある解説ができる眼識鋭い著実家で、自身が係わったアフリカ諸国の政治情勢の内情を明らかにしている。さらに、自分の職業上の言質が私生活にもたらしてきた代価についても正直にうち明けている。彼が、両政党の前執行部に対して敬意を示しているからだけでなく、虚心坦懐な人物であるからこそ、現大統領顧問に対する彼の告発は無視しがたいものになっているのだ。この暴露本はおそらく飛ぶように売れるだろう。地図3点、モノクロ写真16点収録。
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.
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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 alleged that Iraq had pursued uranium from Africa for its nuclear weapons program, Wilson could not stand silent. He had traveled to Niger the previous year and found no evidence to support the president's claim. To intimidate Wilson, senior administration officials disclosed the undercover status of Wilson's wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, to the press, putting her life in danger. Rather than backing down, Wilson persistently criticized the way the administration misled the nation into war. Now he continues his fight in this groundbreaking book by revealing the perils bred by the war-hungry regime in the White House.
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