To: jlallen who wrote (414237 ) 6/11/2003 10:28:09 PM From: Doug R Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bush did not know it was forged. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!senior Administration officials had serious doubts about the forged evidence well before the President's State of the Union address. For example, Greg Thielmann, Director of the Office of Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Issues in the State Department, told Newsweek last week that the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) had concluded the documents were "garbage." As you surely know, INR is part of what you call "the intelligence community." It is headed by an Assistant Secretary of State, Carl Ford; it reports directly to the Secretary of State; and it was a full participant in the debate over Iraq's nuclear capabilities.the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged. the administration and seemed to be accepted - except that President Bush and the State Department kept citing it anyway. "communicated significant doubts to the administration about the evidence."
