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To: KLP who wrote (11213)10/7/2003 4:10:35 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 793801
 
Novak reports that the CIA paid his expenses for the trip, so there should be some paperwork.

I suspect that the Administration did in fact send him to Niger, after getting information that the Niger/Saddam connection was bogus. When he so reported, backed up by the CIA and others, the claim was made at the State of the Union address that the Brits--not us--had info about Niger.

Technically correct, but not really the whole truth, is it?

Tenet dutifully fell on his sword on this point.

I don't see the CIA asking Wilson to make the trip because, as a Gore supporter and part of the Clinton ambassadorial team, the CIA would have known that any report from Wilson would have been regarded as suspect by the WH. Why bother to send a guy who won't be believed in the first place?

Is the whole thing any kind of a big deal?

Not in my view.

Look closely at the Kay report on WMDs. They are a problem that can't be readily solved. But to say that Saddam didn't have them and was not working to get them is just plain silly. Kay clearly justifies the war.

We all need to focus on the ultimate issue. If Saddam somehow got hold of a nuke, whether home-made or purchased, the whole complexion of global relations would have changed.

This is what it was about. The rest is political folderol to be dealt with politically. If the Bushies can't get out of this one, well, too bad for them but the fact remains that they did the country and the West a great service by getting rid of Saddam.
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