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...John Judis and Spencer Ackerman in “The First Casualty,” which is available online from The New Republic. The most flagrant case of the two governments knowingly using falsified intelligence is forged documents that alleged Iraq had been trying to import uranium from Niger...
...February 2002, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV had travelled to Niger for the CIA to investigate for Cheney whether the allegations contained in the documents were true. Upon his return, Wilson had offered an assessment to American government officials, which was, in his words, “very unequivocal” in its assertion that the allegations were false. The CIA then would have briefed Cheney’s office orally or in writing, according to Wilson’s op-ed in the New York Times. Nevertheless, on Jan. 28, 2003, President Bush said in his State...
...second of the two questions allowed American reporters was about Niger and the erroneous reports that Iraq was trying to acquire uranium there. The claim made it into the President's State of the Union address and has been a sore point for the White House for some time. Though members of his staff have been fumbling to answer questions about the bum information, the President was smart enough to stay miles away from an answer. He reasserted his main belief: that Saddam was a threat. To the extent he answered the question at all, he merely said: "There...
...More troubling questions arise from the claim by IAEA chief Dr Mohammed el-Baradei, who was in charge of the nuclear component of the prewar UN inspection program in Iraq, that he was provided with the Niger "evidence" only in February, despite it having been shared on Capitol Hill the previous October. The U.S. and Britain were publicly committed to sharing intelligence with the UN inspectors in order to help them find a "smoking gun," yet el-Baradei was kept in the dark about evidence that was ostensibly directly relevant to his inquiry. And, of course, almost as soon...
...Even more damning are reports that CIA sources insist the Bush administration was made aware some time before the State of the Union address that the Niger allegation was false. If those prove true, it kicks the jams out from under the administration's claim that the presence of a falsehood in the President's case against Iraq was simply the product of ignorance. And it may be expected that the CIA will more and more sharply signal that it passed its findings up the food chain, because on the basis of Ambassador Wilson's revelations, they'd be left...