WILSON: Let me make a couple of points about that.
First of all, Novak also said that I was a Clinton appointee. In actual fact, my first political appointee was as ambassador. And I was appointed by George H.W. Bush, the first President Bush. So I really am apolitical in all of this.
That seems to differ alot with this bio of Joseph Wilson IV.
...In 1982, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in Bujumbura, Burundi. In 1985-1986, he served in the offices of Senator Albert Gore and the House Majority Whip, Representative Thomas Foley, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88, prior to his assignment to Baghdad...
Ambassador Wilson served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998. In that capacity he was responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, He was one of the principal architecs of President Clinton's historic trip to Africa in March 1998.
According to this site, Wilson was appointed Ambassador to South Africa under Reagan.
Of course, Joseph Wilson is known to be a registered Democrat.
And, of course, Joe Wilson, the Bush-bashing former ambassador, was appointed by President Clinton to head African Affairs at the National Security Council.
That makes you a "Clinton appointee", does it not?
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