[ZEEGIRL]

I don't get it. Is there a coup in progress? If you read what Ari said, below, there's something wrong. He never allows the President to be in the wrong.

Ari cites the Niger issue, not the British intelligence.

Since they already knew there was no truth in the Niger angle, specifically, there is no reason to relate to Niger.

If he'd said "We mistakingly put blind faith in the British intelligence..." there would have been a way out.

Bush cited "Africa," not Niger.

I fear that Ari buried Bush while he was out of the country.

Is this Bush's Watergate in the making? Tenet pretends to take responsibility, but was that a pretense for giving away the methodology? Did Ari do the rest? He's too fast on his feet to make a statement like this. Knowingly living six months with the "error" only adds fuel to the fire.

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FLEISCHER: I'm sorry, I see what David is asking. Let me back up on that and explain the President's statement again, or the answer to it.

The President's statement was based on the predicate of the yellow cake from Niger. The President made a broad statement. So given the fact that the report on the yellow cake did not turn out to be accurate, that is reflective of the President's broader statement, David. So, yes, the President' broader statement was based and predicated on the yellow cake from Niger.

Q: So it was wrong?

FLEISCHER: That's what we've acknowledged with the information on --

Q: The President's statement at the State of the Union was incorrect?

FLEISCHER: Because it was based on the yellow cake from Niger.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Knowingly living six months with the "error" only adds fuel to the fire.

Why draw your enemy's attention to your own mistep?A great deal changes in six months. The Democrats will follow this line as long as they can about Bush being a liar, and then... Bush will release the WMD evidence. So, the question is, how do the Democrats spin that?

[AHerald]

You really need to read Tenet's statement on the matter, not merely a synopsis. It puts this whole non-scandal scandal to bed. Even better, it reveals that Wilson intentionally failed to mention in his op-ed that he had been approached in 1999 by Iraqi "businessmen" to help set up a meeting with Nigerian officials. Wilson himself later reported to the CIA that he believed this was an attempt by the Iraqis to buy uranium from Niger.

Ask yourself why Wilson would write an op-ed and not mention that fact that he was asked to be a middle-man in a Iraqi uranium purchase from Niger. He chose to omit this from his op-ed, obviously, because it would have bolstered the administration's case against Iraq.

[MonroeDNA]

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