That is EXACTLY what Alan Colmes just brought up on Hannity & Colmes
You're cherrypicking:
From the Washington Post:
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.
Yesterday's report said that whether Iraq sought to buy lightly enriched "yellowcake" uranium from Niger is one of the few bits of prewar intelligence that remains an open question. Much of the rest of the intelligence suggesting a buildup of weapons of mass destruction was unfounded, the report said.
The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him.
BTW, are you unfamiliar with the fact that the reason the White House was so upset was because Wilson claimed he went for Cheney -- and that Cheney HAD TO HAVE SEEN HIS REPORT before Bush spoke those words in the State of the Union address, so they lied?
In fact, he never made a written report and Cheney never even knew he went.
Read pages 47 to 57 of that report........the BIPARTISAN Senate Intelligence Committe Report said he lied about practically everything.
That's kind of amusing...since we know a) that Niger had previously sold 100 tons of yellowcake to Iraq; b) that Iraq (Aziz?) was in Niger actively TRYING to buy more; c) that the CIA analysts which decided that it was unlikely that Iraq was seeking more was based on the theory that Iraq already had more than enough.
The 911 commission pointed out that Wilson did find a witness in Niger whose information lent support to the other intel that Iraq had sent a delegation to Niger to inquire about what the Nigeriens assumed was uranium.
Wilson's claims that the deal was impossible because security was too tight in Niger or because the French are all-powerful antiporliferation watchdogs is simply stupid.