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...Niger yellowcake uranium imbroglio concerns a piece of intelligence Washington knew was bad that was nonetheless restated in President Bush's State of the Union address. A bureaucratic snafu, says the Bush Administration, and one which doesn't detract at all from the case for war; in fact it was hardly a significant part of that case in the first place. Indeed. But three months after taking control of Iraq, the deeper question looming on the horizon is less how one item of bad intelligence slipped into a keynote speech than how so much of the intelligence the Administration...
...never repeated that particular untruth. Combining those two objectives can be tough. "At the time of the president's State of the Union, a judgement was made that was an appropriate statement for the president to make," he told reporters in South Africa last week, referring to the Niger allegation. "When I made my presentation to the United Nations and we really went through every single thing we knew about all of the various issues with respect to weapons of mass destruction, we did not believe that it was appropriate to use that example anymore. It was not standing...
...Powell doesn't get off that easily, because it's not only the President's Niger claim that is now under a shadow of doubt. The Secretary of State began his February 5 presentation to the UN Security Council - supposedly the best-scrubbed version of the indictment against Saddam - with the promise that "every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence." Three months after coalition forces have taken control of Iraq, it's worth asking how many of Powell...
...GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, blaming the CIA for his assertion in the 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. The information was based on forged documents that some intelligence officials considered suspect before Bush made the speech...
Wilson was shocked because he knew Cheney would have read drafts of the speech. He called a friend in the state department to ask whether Bush was referring to the Niger allegation, but his friend suggested another African country. On March 7, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the U.N. Security Council that the Niger documents were fake. Months since then, the Bush and Blair governments have continuously claimed to have other evidence of the Iraq-Africa connection, yet they were unwilling to reveal it to Congress or Parliament...