Someone needs to forward a copy of the Butler Report and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report to them. The Intelligence Committee report said that Wilson's trip to Niger "lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal." The Butler Report affirmed what the British government had said about the Niger uranium story back in 2003, and specifically endorsed what Bush said as well. An excerpt:
By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded.
Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
Compliments to:
A Court Brief was linked to on another thread proving that 36 media outlets (including CNN, MSNBC, Newpaper consortiums) said NO CRIME has been committed. Also page 7 of this brief shows that all these media outlets said Plame was NOT COVERT:
http://www.bakerlaw.com/files/tbl_s10News/FileUpload44/10159/Amici%20Brief%20032305%20%28Final%29.PDF
Its only after Rove's name appeared that they did the Emily Latella routine - Never Mind.
the white house should never have backtracked on the Niger story - the Niger story was true, the forged documents were planted as a poison pill to discredit it.