In Service of Truth: Behind the Scenes of America's Foreign Policy

Ambassador Joseph Wilson knew President Bush was lying when he uttered the sixteen words in question: "The British government has discovered that Saddam Hussein recently sought to obtain significant quantities of uranium in Africa." He exposed the administration's distortions of the truth and paid for it by illegally "leaking" the identity of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent.
Wilson details how government officials in a belligerent White House were led to deliberate deception and lawlessness, and how this administration became a danger to the nation. Key players in Wilson's story include President Bush Sr., Jamer Baker, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush Jr., and his behind-the-scenes personal adviser Karl Rove. Wilson, the unblemished diplomat who last negotiated with Saddam and Tariq Aziz after the invasion of Kuwait, unravels the brazen methods of an administration that resorts to fabrication and offers the reader a revealing glimpse behind the scenes of two decades of American foreign policy.