"The White House overrode the CIA's objections about a statement in President Bush's State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for its nuclear weapons program, CBS Evening News reported on July 10, 2003."
News is today (7/11/03), that the CIA signed off on the intelligence that Bush used in preparing his SOU address.
If so, then the State of the Union Speach oddly worded the claim. It appears that it was worded that way to avoid CIA difficulties. As noted previously, "White House officials argued that since a paper issued by the British government contained the assertion, if it was attributed to Britain
it would be factually accurate" (though known to have problems).
I guess it depends on what the definition of "is" is.