Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Stephen Hadley, and the other members of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) set out to destroy Joseph Wilson because he dared to tell the truth about Bush's uranium lies.

Wilson first told his story in an op ed in the New York Times on July 6, 2003 entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa." The next day, George Bush and his top aides flew to Africa on Air Force One. They carried a State Department report marked "Secret" that identified Wilson's wife as a CIA agent who was working on the crucial issue of WMD proliferation.

So even though they were told that Plame's work was crucial to the war on terror - and even though they were told that Plame's identity was secret - Rove & Co. nevertheless decided that punishing Joe Wilson was more important that protecting a covert CIA agent and waging the war against terror. This decision was both a criminal conspiracy and an act of treason.

Over the following days, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Stephen Hadley, and other top officials fed Plame's identity to a variety of reporters, including columnist Bob Novak, Time's Matt Cooper and PentaPost's Walter Pincus.

Eight days later, Novak outed Wilson's wife Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, flagrantly defying CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, who warned him twice not to expose Plame.

Novak's outing of Plame led to a CIA complaint filed with the Justice Department, a preliminary investigation, and eventually the appointment of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

But during the preliminary investigation, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales gave Rove & Co. 63 days to scrub any evidence of their crimes.

By the time Fitzgerald was appointed, Rove & Co. had manufactured a set of lies about the outing of Plame.

Rove & Co. told these lies to Fitzgerald and the grand jury, but they didn't buy the lies. Instead, they called Rove back three times to analyze his "story" in greater detail.

But Rove & Co. continue to spread these lies through "journalists." And no matter how many times these lies are exposed as lies, these "journalists" keep repeating them.

This page is devoted to exposing Rove's Plamegate lies - and exposing the "journalists" who keep repeating these lies.

We invite you to help us correct these lies by writing the "journalists" who lie, and demading corrections.

Lie #1: Joe Wilson claimed he was sent to Africa by Dick Cheney (debunked here)

Joe Wilson has always told the same story: he was sent to Africa by the CIA, which was investigating a report that Iraq purchased uranium from Niger at the request of the Office of the Vice President.

Wilson has never claimed that Dick Cheney personally sent him.

So where did this lie come from? Directly from the chairman of the Republican Party, Ken Mehlman, who published the GOP's official defense of Karl Rove on July 12, 2005. Mehlman's defense included this alleged quote from Wilson:

“What They Did, What The Office Of The Vice President Did, And, In Fact, I Believe Now From Mr. Libby’s Statement, It Was Probably The Vice President Himself ...” (CNN’s “Late Edition,” 8/3/03)

As Al Franken has documented, this deliberately cut-off quote is completely misleading. After Wilson was interrupted by Wolf Blitzer, he explained that mid-level CIA officials chose him:

They [the Office of the Vice President, and probably the Vice President himself] asked essentially that we follow up on this report -- that the agency follow up on the report. So it was a question that went to the CIA briefer from the Office of the Vice President. The CIA, at the operational level, made a determination that the best way to answer this serious question was to send somebody out there who knew something about both the uranium business and those Niger officials that were in office at the time these reported documents were executed.

But some "journalists" keep on repeating Ken Mehlman's lie:

• PentaPost's Mike Allen on Hardball July 27: email allenm@washpost.com, hardball@msnbc.com, viewerservices@msnbc.com

Lie #2: Joe Wilson was chosen for the trip by his wife (debunked here)

Lie #3: Valerie Plame was not undercover

Lie #4: The CIA did not warn Novak against outing Plame