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To: Doctor Raoul

I wonder if he's going to have to give back his award:

The Fertel Foundation and The Nation Institute also presented awards to Joseph Wilson and Daniel Ellsberg. Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe, and a senior diplomat in Iraq, won the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling. Wilson traveled to Niger to investigate U.S. intelligence that Iraq had sought to purchase significant quantities of uranium from Africa. He reported back to the Bush Administration that this was unlikely. After President Bush referred to the uranium purchase in his State of the Union address, Wilson publicly accused the Administration of exaggerating the Iraqi threat.


3 posted on 07/11/2005 7:43:55 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
Report Disputes Wilson's Claims on Trip, Wife's Role

July 10, 2004
Washington Post
Susan Schmidt

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Wilson's assertions -- both about what he found in Niger and what the Bush administration did with the information -- were undermined yesterday in a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report.

The panel found that Wilson's report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary to Wilson's assertions and even the government's previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address.


22 posted on 07/11/2005 8:29:33 PM PDT by kcvl
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