Posted on 07/18/2004 6:49:19 PM PDT by Pikamax
Clinton reopens book on Iraqi bid to buy uranium in Africa
Michael White, political editor Monday July 19, 2004 The Guardian
Tony Blair's ally and former US president Bill Clinton yesterday reopened the sensitive issue of Saddam Hussein's attempts to buy uranium in Africa. Speaking on BBC1's Breakfast with Frost, Mr Clinton, who is promoting his memoirs, said there was "no evidence" the CIA had ever told George Bush about the claim.
Though it has not been stated in the four official inquiries into British intelligence, London's source for its claims about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium - widely repeated in the US until discredited - almost certainly came from French intelligence.
France has much influence in Niger, the west African state in which Iraq allegedly tried to buy the so-called "yellow cake".
A convention between intelligence services allows a provider of data shared with an ally to control further dissemination. British sources say that Paris, in this instance, refused further dissemination, even when the US basis for a similar claim proved to come from crudely forged documents.
The Butler report said "there was some evidence that by 2002 an agreement for a sale had been reached", and that statements in the UK government's dossier and by the prime minister to the commons about Iraqi attempts to buy such ore "were well-founded".
Mr Clinton told Sir David Frost: "Let me just say one other thing. Now this doesn't apply to the UK, it applies to America. There is no evidence that the CIA told the president or the White House that Saddam Hussein had gotten uranium yellow cake from Niger, or was close to having a nuclear weapon, a representation that was made.
"Now the intelligence in the UK may have told Prime Minister Blair but the evidence is to the contrary in America. And there is no evidence that the CIA ever said that Saddam Hussein was tied to al-Qaida and could have had anything to do with September 11 directly or indirectly," he said.
The implication of his remarks was that untrustworthy sources had briefed the White House and other agencies.
The moral, he said, was not to blame the CIA or other agencies for things they had not done or got wrong.
The worst man to ever be President in the history of the United States.
And still the worst ex president
um, what were those 16 words again? That the CIA had told him...? No.
And of course people will not see this for the pure obfuscation that it is
Wilson is now an established liar. Clinton (him) is also an established liar. Recall what he was fined and disbarred for. But the Guardian cannot afford to recognize that its sources are liars -- would betray its reporters and editors as assistant liars, doncha know? LOL.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "John Kerry & John Edwards: You've GOT to be Kidding"
Exact words the Beast used when describing the Toon's sexual escapades of the past.
She would never say he didn't do it, she would always couch her words with the expression, "there's no evidence of that".
Scum sucking lawyer speak at it's highest level.
Did he say this with his pants up or down?
Bill Clinton, while not being the worst president, is certainly the worst human being to ever BE president.
"Ditto" It was Carter that sold out the Middle East. And laid the foundation for the multitude of problem there today.
Let me see if I've got this straight. In Britain, it's okay to believe Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Niger. In America, it's not okay to believe Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Niger. Even though the US and Britain were sharing intelligence and had the same information, Tony Blair had good reason to believe it, but Bush didn't. Is that about right?
I guess al-Ghardiyan reporters don't read any other newspapers... or they would know London's reports were never "discredited." Joe Wilson lied. Apparently these left-wing wackos still haven't heard.
>>Mr Clinton told Sir David Frost: "Let me just say one other thing. Now this doesn't apply to the UK, it applies to America. There is no evidence that the CIA told the president or the White House that Saddam Hussein had gotten uranium yellow cake from Niger, or was close to having a nuclear weapon, a representation that was made. <<
That's a technique of lying. Change the premise and prove the changed premise wrong. The orginal argument was Saddam was ATTEMPTING to buy yellowcake. He was still having his nuke program. We could not wait until he was close to having any of that. Of course these statements are different that the type of things BJ Clinton was saying about Iraq either months ago or when he was in office.
But everyone knows he a liar.
DK
Didn't we fly a couple of tons of lower level nuke material from the Iraqi NUCLEAR REACTOR facility?
That is pre 9/11. Blair is Bush's and America's ally.
We all suspect it is Bill Clinton who is the architect of the "Bush Lied", "Blair Lied" plot that was coordinated. I am not surprised to see him stir the pot publicly in order to keep it going as he sees Wilson being discredited.
Please, investigators. DO YOUR JOBS.
The implication of his remarks was that untrustworthy sources had briefed the White House and other agencies.
The moral, he said, was not to blame the CIA or other agencies for things they had not done or got wrong.
He betrays here he is also the force behind pushing the muddying of waters about Al Qaeda and Iraq links and interchanging a connection between them with meaning involvement from Iraq in 9/11. We all know here the Bush administration never asserted the latter.
What agency is he implying was giving bad info?
The fact that he is coming to the defense of the CIA now goes in my column of evidence supporting my contention he is involved in the Wilson skullduggery.
I agree that Carter was the far and away the worst President, and the worst ex-President, to boot and by an even greater margin.
But Clinton was the worst MAN ever to be President.
Dead on DK..
and from the best in the 'bidness' at deception and obfuscation.
Why anyone seriously puts credence in anything this lier says is beyond me.
Shhh! Don't tell the leftist press. They think "we havn't found WMDS".I suppose spin wise the press is correct.
After all the Polish found the stuff, we didn't. But then if the Polish found it, how can we be "going it alone"?
The press is twisting into an ever tightening knot.
The truth is terrifying to them.
America is supposed to lose. What can a leftist do?
Well,other than lie...
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