JULY 4, 2003 : (PARTY AT THE WILSON'S HOUSE INCLUDES REPORTER)
[* My note: Now, Pincus of the Washington Post mentioned this gathering but the wording he used for some of it implied that there were reporters there- which he didn't name. ]
JULY 5, 2003 Tuesday : (REPRESENTATIVE WAXMAN WRITES LETTER CONCERNING NIGER FLAP) Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, wrote to Bush on Tuesday outlining a letter he received from the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the forged Niger documents. The letter "raises new questions about why the administration withheld the evidence from the IAEA for over six crucial weeks in December and January and - even then - failed to share the conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials that the evidence was bogus."
Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination, including Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Reps. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, also called for further investigation. - "Bush Defends Use of Iraq Intelligence," By TOM RAUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 09, 2003 Sat via Las Vegas SUN main page
[* My note: Why would some unknown person in the IAEA contact Henry Waxman of all people, and not, say, the President? Rumsfeld? Condi Rice? The US UN ambassador? The Senate intelligence committee?]
JULY 6, 2003 : (NY TIMES : WILSON'S OP ED IS PUBLISHED)
That is a very interesting timeline, piasa.
Marking.
...very interesting...
Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, wrote to Bush on Tuesday outlining a letter he received from the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the forged Niger documents. The letter "raises new questions about why the administration withheld the evidence from the IAEA for over six crucial weeks in December and January and - even then - failed to share the conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials that the evidence was bogus."
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Then we learned in short order after Wilson's op-ed that the CIA headquarters did not even have the forged documents until February 2003 (after the above "crucial weeks" cited) and obviously we immediately informed the IAEA of our findings of forgery:
FBI looking into forged Iraq-Niger documents
July 16, 2003
excerpt:
Government officials say CIA headquarters received the documents in February 2003, in which President Bush claimed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Africa.
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SNIP
1977 Jack O'Dell becomes Chair of the Pacifica Foundation.
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1979 Pacifica, the League of Women Voters, and congressman Henry Waxman (D, CA) challenge the constitutionality of the prohibition on editorializing by non-commercial broadcasters.