[William McKinley]

BTW- check out the name. Jacques Baute. He's the same guy who determined that the Niger documents were false. He's the French representative to the IAEA.

[Pikamax]

"Mr. Joseph then came back to Mr. Foley and pointed out that the British had already included the information in a report. Mr. Foley said yes, but noted that the C.I.A. had told the British that they were not sure that the information was correct. Mr. Joseph then asked whether it was accurate that the British reported the information. Mr. Foley said yes.

Other government officials said, however, that Mr. Joseph did not recall Mr. Foley's raising any concerns about the reliability of the information. If he had, they said, Mr. Joseph would have made sure that the reference was not included in the speech."



>>you basic he said he said.

[Dog]

I came across him the other day when I was researching Valerie Plame Wilson..

[Dog]

Check out this week old artcile from the Statesman.....dated July 12,2003.

Now note the Joseph -Foley exchange was reported in the NYTIMES before Tenet went to the Hill yesterday.

Click.

Before Bush's speech, conversations between the CIA and White House over whether to include the African reference were held between Bob Joseph, a National Security Council nuclear proliferation expert, and Alan Foley, a CIA proliferation expert, government officials told The New York Times.

There is still a dispute over what exactly was said in their conversations. Foley was said to recall that before the speech, Joseph asked him about putting into the speech a reference to reports that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger. Foley replied that the CIA wasn't sure that information was right.

Joseph then came back to Foley and pointed out that the British had already included the information in a report. Foley said yes, but noted that the CIA had told the British that it wasn't sure that information was correct. Joseph then asked whether it was accurate that the British reported the information? Foley said yes.

This article contains material from wire services.