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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (428497)	7/17/2003 2:30:10 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

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To: jlallen who wrote (428497)	7/17/2003 3:01:31 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

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To: jlallen who wrote (428497)	7/17/2003 3:01:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ooops! (I don't think you read your own post!) "...Officials at several other U.S. agencies, including the State Department, declined to say whether another U.S. government agency possessed or viewed them before Bush's speech last January." >>> Cheney's office had received the State Department's Intelligence report on the matter in 2002. "After the CIA received the documents, the government provided them to the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, which quickly determined them to be forgeries. The U.N. Security Council was alerted March 7, two weeks before American and British forces invaded Iraq." But the documents had already been used for public claims in at least two places: the Dec. 19 State Department fact sheet and Bush's Jan. 28 address, in which he uttered the line: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." When the Niger claim first arose, the CIA sent a retired diplomat to Africa to investigate in February 2002. The diplomat, Joseph Wilson, reported finding no credible evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger. >>> So, independent of the forged documents, the CIA concluded the claims were false. Tenet said the CIA was unaware of any documents purporting to show such transactions at the time, and it is unclear when the U.S. government learned that the documents existed and were the source of the Niger claim. >>> The forged documents first turned up in the hands of Italian Intelligence... who concluded they were forgeries (but who also passed them on to other Western agencies.) The CIA's doubts about the uranium claim were reported through routine intelligence traffic throughout the government, one U.S. intelligence official said. Those doubts were also reported to the British. The Niger report, along with a notation that it was unconfirmed, was also included in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the classified summary of intelligence on Iraq. Tenet said the report was not a key part of the CIA's judgment that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. The CIA had the Niger claim removed from at least two speeches before they were given: President Bush's October address on the Iraqi threat and a later speech by U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte, officials said. On Jan. 28, 2003, the Africa allegation went into the State of the Union address. As the speech was being written, CIA officials protested the line, so the administration changed it to attribute it to British intelligence instead of U.S. intelligence. Tenet said last week it should have been removed.