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To: Ilaine who wrote (169726)	6/13/2006 5:19:45 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793858

I also quoted CIA Director Tenet and then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, now promoted to National Security Advisor, stating, after the fact, that they possessed sufficient reasons to stop the President from promulgating the Iraq yellowcake story but failed to do so Misquoted Tenet is more like it. Look, the British said their intelligence was not based on the forgeries. The UK Butler report concluded that the POTUS speech was "well founded" based on information known at the time. The admission that the "16 words" is based on CIA's unease about the reliability of the information. That is different than the information being false. The British still stand by their intelligence, and like I said, Wilson's follow up conversations in Niger confirmed that Iraq was seeking uranium in Niger. Nobody believed that Iraq OBTAINED uranium from Niger, and that is a straw man. The issue of whether Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium was relevant to whether Iraq was reconstituting a nuclear program. Why else would they be shopping for yellowcake? Derek