Ambassador Joseph Wilson and the Clash of World Views

The Bush Administration's foreign policy is unraveling, and its primary architect, Vice President Cheney may soon be a defendant in a civil suit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson, IV.  In the conflict between two former public servants--Plame and Wilson--and officials of the Bush administration--Cheney, Rove, and Libby-- it is worth recalling that Ambassador Joseph Wilson, in going public on the abuse of intelligence by the Bush administration, represented a different world view of how U.S. foreign policy should be conducted.  The Conversations with History interview with Ambassador Wilson, taped May 27, 2005, explores his career in the foreign service and how that career shaped his perspective on the use of intelligence, multilateral versus unilateral responses to global probems, and the role of secrecy in subverting policy debates.  http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Wilson/wilson-con0.html