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I see. But that doesn't say what edition it was in of the magazine. I also see that the date there goes back to July 16th now. Still right around the time of Novak's piece, but still not the date of any of their magazines. The dates for the magazine editions were July 14th, 21st, and 28th.

The 21st is the edition they focused on Yellocake.

If it was in either the 14th or 21st edition, then they did not get it from Novak.

Here are some other dates to be noted.
This is from the White House website.
I t is absolutely no coincidence to me that the New York Times chose July 6th, the day before the President's trip and the day after ArI Fleischer had stepped down as Press secretary to publish Joe Wilson's Op-Ed. The timing screams Dem dirty tricks to get the President's meetings with African heads of state off the front pages.

They were successful, too. All of a sudden the newscasts that week were "Bush - Africa - Niger- lies" instead of "President meeting with African leaders to focus on how America can help Africa"

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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 3, 2003

Dr. Rice's Remarks

Press Briefing by Dr. Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor,
On the President's Trip to Africa
The James S. Brady Briefing Room

3:40 P.M. EDT

DR. RICE: Good afternoon. First, I'd like to provide a brief overview of the President's upcoming trip to Africa. And then I'll be happy to take your questions, as usual.

Africa is a continent of challenge and promise. The President is committed to helping African nations meet these challenges and fulfill that promise with policies and initiatives designed to extend liberty, prosperity and peace on the continent. As one of only two U.S. Presidents to visit Africa in his first term, President Bush's trip next week to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, and Nigeria is emblematic of this commitment.

The President and Mrs. Bush will depart the White House on Monday, July 7th, for an overnight flight that lands them in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday, July 8th. In Senegal, the President will meet with President Wade, with whom he's met several times before. President Wade is a solid and progressive leader of West Africa's longest standing democracy and someone that the President admires as a statesman in the region. The President and Mrs. Bush will visit Goree Island, where the President will deliver remarks and tour a slave house with Mrs. Bush and President and Madam Wade. The President and Mrs. Bush will then depart for Pretoria, South Africa.

On Wednesday July 9th, the President will meet with President Mbeki, of South Africa, on a wide range of bilateral issues, as well as regional issues. They will then join Mrs. Mbeki and Mrs. Bush and other guests for a lunch. Later, the President and Mrs. Bush will join U.S. Ambassador Hume for dinner with South African and U.S. business executives.

The next morning, the President and Mrs. Bush depart Pretoria en route to Gaborone, Botswana. The President will meet with President Mogae, participating in a welcoming lunch with 500 of Botswana's leading citizens. He will then visit a Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Trade Hub Exhibit, where he will meet with -- among others -- several women entrepreneurs. The President and Mrs. Bush will also visit the Mokolodi Nature Reserve and then depart for Pretoria, where they will overnight.

On Friday, July 11th, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart for Entebbe, Uganda, where they will meet with President Museveni, to visit the Taso Clinic that is an AIDS clinic, and a patient support center, where he will give remarks and then depart for Abuja, Nigeria.

Saturday morning, President Bush will attend a briefing on HIV/AIDS programs and meet with mothers who are benefiting from the mother-to-child transmission prevention programs that the United States funds.

The President will then meet with President Obasanjo and deliver remarks to participants in the African/African-American biannual summit that was first organized by the late Reverend Leon Sullivan. The President and Mrs. Bush depart Nigeria for Washington.

I'm happy to take your questions.

"If it was in either the 14th or 21st edition, then they did not get it from Novak."

If the article is dated July 17, wouldn't it probably be in the 21st edition?

A War on Wilson?
Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection
By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON

Thursday, Jul. 17, 2003