More "news" from this reporter... http://www.showmenews.com/2003/Jul/20030721News011.asp
Bush not able to dispel questions
Intelligence critics just won’t go away.
By JENNIFER LOVEN Associated Press Writer
Published Monday, July 21, 2003
WASHINGTON The White House defense of President George W. Bush’s now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.
So far, none has worked.
In question: Sixteen words in Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
At issue: The credibility of the president’s allegation that Saddam was rebuilding a nuclear weapons program. The assertion that Iraq was trying to buy uranium was a key component of that claim — and a key piece of Bush’s justification for war.
The flap started on July 6, when an envoy sent by the CIA to Africa last year to investigate the uranium claim contended that the Bush administration ignored — and possibly manipulated — his findings.
In a New York Times op-ed article, Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, said it was highly doubtful that any transaction took place.
The next day, the White House acknowledged that Bush should not have made the claim because of concerns about the intelligence behind it. The documents allegedly showing an Iraq-Niger uranium connection turned out to be forgeries. ...
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Of course, as the 9/11 Commission UNANIMOUSLY reported (as did the Senate Inigence Committee report and Lord Butler's report) the LIAR WAS JOE WILSON, and the yellowcake intel was not dependent on the forgeries at all.
Good ol' Jennifer based her FRAUDCAST report on FALSE information from a single source LIAR.
Sound familiar?
Puts this little hit piece in perspective, eh?