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To: LindyBill who wrote (144299)10/24/2005 5:12:39 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 793928
 
Yes, one BIG question that has never been answered by Wilson...WHO sent him to Africa?

Did Blitzer ever dig to find the answer to his question? Condi said it wasn't Cheney

---"CIA officials"---EXACTLY WHO were the individuals in the CIA were the "CIA Officials???

And exactly WHO was in charge from the CIA for vettng the info given to the President for the State of the Union address? Deep down in the bowels of the CIA, who was the person OR the Department who left these words in, and why? Isn't that the purpose of the CIA....to give information to the *best* of their ability???

--Do we have any proof that Valerie was a "clandestine" CIA agent?????

---Was she REALLY an expert on WMD??? If she was an EXPERT, then why did the CIA get the info SO wrong?

As it turns out, Valerie really was a clandestine CIA agent and an expert on weapons of mass destruction, exactly the threat that Bush held out as the primary justification for going to war in Iraq. And, as it turns out, Joe's experience as an African envoy also made him a player.

CIA officials asked him to travel to Africa in February 2002 to check out a report that Niger sold uranium to Iraq in the late 1990s for use in nuclear weapons. Wilson quickly concluded the report was bogus. (Documents related to the purported sale later were exposed as a forgery.)

The unsubstantiated uranium deal surfaced again in Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address. Six months later, Wilson went public in a big way with his accusations that the administration had twisted intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

Writing in The New York Times under the headline, "What I didn't Find in Africa," Wilson set off a firestorm that inevitably led to attacks on his credibility.

apnews.excite.com
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