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'''Joseph Charles Wilson IV''' (born [[November 6]] [[1949]]) is a retired [[diplomat]] of the [[United States Foreign Service]], who was posted to African nations and Iraq during the [[George H. W. Bush]] administration. During the [[George W. Bush]] administration, after his retirement from foreign service, Wilson became known to the general public as a result of his controversial [[editorial|op-ed]] published in ''[[The New York Times]]'' on July 6, 2003, four months after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. In the op-ed, entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," Wilson documents his February 2002 trip investigating whether Iraq purchased or attempted to purchase [[yellowcake]] from [[Niger]] in the late 1990s and accuses the [[George W. Bush]] administration of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat" in order to justify war."<ref>Joseph C. Wilson IV, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6c6aeb1ce960dec0&ex=1372824000&partner=USERLAND "What I Didn't Find in Africa,"] ''The New York Times'', July 6, 2003.</ref> Despite being wholly discredited – and, in some cases, found to have lied outright - Wilson has since become a speaker and activist on behalf of Democratic causes, including campaigning and working for Senator [[John Kerry]] in the 2004 election. {{who says}}

'''Joseph Charles Wilson IV''' (born [[November 6]] [[1949]]) is a retired [[diplomat]] of the [[United States Foreign Service]], who was posted to African nations and Iraq during the [[George H. W. Bush]] administration. During the [[George W. Bush]] administration, after his retirement from foreign service, Wilson became known to the general public as a result of his controversial [[editorial|op-ed]] published in ''[[The New York Times]]'' on July 6, 2003, four months after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. In the op-ed, entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," Wilson documents his February 2002 trip investigating whether Iraq purchased or attempted to purchase [[yellowcake]] from Niger in the late 1990s and accuses the [[George W. Bush]] administration of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat" in order to justify war."<ref>Joseph C. Wilson IV, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6c6aeb1ce960dec0&ex=1372824000&partner=USERLAND "What I Didn't Find in Africa,"] ''The New York Times'', July 6, 2003.</ref> Despite being wholly discredited – and, in some cases, found to have lied outright - Wilson has since become a speaker and activist on behalf of Democratic causes, including campaigning and working for Senator [[John Kerry]] in the 2004 election.

==Biographical Information==

==Biographical Information==

Wilson was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1949 to Joseph Charles Wilson III and Phyllis (Finnell) Wilson. On his father's side, the Wilson's uncle is [[Pete Wilson]], former United States Senator and Governor of California. He is married to his third wife, the former [[Valerie Plame|Valerie Elise Plame]], and their two children, twins Trevor Rolph and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in 2000. (See ''Who's Who'' biography).<ref>Vicky Ward, [http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2004/01/plame200401?printable=true&currentPage=all "Double Exposure"], ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]],'' January 2004.</ref>

Wilson was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1949 to Joseph Charles Wilson III and Phyllis (Finnell) Wilson. On his father's side, the Wilson's uncle is [[Pete Wilson]], former United States Senator and Governor of California. He is married to his third wife, the former [[Valerie Plame|Valerie Elise Plame]], and their two children, twins Trevor Rolph and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in 2000. <ref>Vicky Ward, [http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2004/01/plame200401?printable=true&currentPage=all "Double Exposure"], ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]],'' January 2004.</ref>

The Vietnam protests of the 1960s, when Wilson was a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, galvanized him along with much of that generation and "pitted parents against kids in [his] family just as it did in many households around the country."

The Vietnam protests of the 1960s, when Wilson was a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, galvanized him along with much of that generation and "pitted parents against kids in [his] family just as it did in many households around the country."