It was on this CIA-sponsored trip more than two years ago that Wilson concluded there was no truth to a British intelligence report, highly prized by the White House, that Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons from the African nation. When Bush repeated the questionable claim in a January 2003 State of the Union address, Wilson wrote publicly about his trip and his findings in an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, setting off a political firestorm. The first chapter in the drama appeared to end when the White House admitted that Bush should not have said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."Ooh, she lie! She's the first to spin that Wilson was sent to Niger relating to the British intelligence report. This is an utter fabrication. That report came out months after his trip, and had nothing to do with it.
And I tell you, i'm wondering if those documents were really forged...or who forged them...
"And I tell you, i'm wondering if those documents were really forged...or who forged them..."
You mean besides the French? :)
The more we analyze the timeline, the more I wonder, too...because the Wilson story (whether coming directly from him or from supporters such as Jacoby in this instance) keeps misrepresenting the timeline, as your example shows.
In fact the committee asked Wilson why he made statements about the forged documents when he couldn't have had access to them--an indication they noticed his mixing up of the timeline, though he claimed being confused. Note that Tenet makes a point in his July statement of saying Wilson never mentioned any documents of any sort at the time he gave his oral report, and it is one thing that made me think Tenet was suspicious of Wilson and spouse.
Why would Jacoby say this here unless instructed by Wilson? Either she was told by Wilson that was the sequence and she failed to research it, or she is a willing participant in the misrepresentation.
It continues to indicate the likelyhood the British Dossier question and the 16 words question were coordinated (as we've often stated is our suspicion) attacks on Blair and Bush, and the Wilson faction's habit of using the forged documents to advance their ruse only raises the question if they had any hand in their creation.
BTW, Jacoby leaps from the (January) SOTU speech to Wilson's July op-ed with nary a reference to Wilson's February column in the Nation or appearances on PBS where he failed to raise any concerns with the president's representations. And since he does in fact refer to the speech, we know he saw it or read it. I guess the plan wasn't ripe yet...