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To: trouthead who wrote (710598)	11/2/2005 3:23:18 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Better check your sources, jb... The lie was in a Washington Post story, not the NY Times Op-Ed piece. The Senate report says fairly bluntly that Wilson lied to the media. Schmidt notes that the panel found that, "Wilson provided misleading information to the Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on a document that had clearly been forged because 'the dates were wrong and the names were wrong.'" The problem is Wilson "had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel discovered. Schmidt notes: "The documents — purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq — were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger." Ironically, Senate investigators found that at least some of what Wilson told his CIA briefer not only failed to persuade the agency that there was nothing to reports of Niger-Iraq link — his information actually created additional suspicion. nationalreview.com

To: trouthead who wrote (710598)	11/2/2005 3:29:21 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There game playing of juxtaposition of information in context flow of this article. But in the paragraph, it is about February 2002. The documents referenced did not exist in anyone's knowledge and were also known as fraudulent because of the names and dates on them. The position of the reference to the document in the February 2002 paragraph is a lie. In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake — a form of lightly processed ore — by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office. Yes with game playing sophistry some will attempt to deny the lie.