Politics > Politics-USA > Intelligence consultant confirms that Bush was told about forgeries before address!
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"Harry Hope" |
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08 Jul 2003 08:42:39 PM |
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Intelligence consultant confirms that Bush was told about forgeries before address! |
From Capitol Hill Blue, 7/8/03:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_2518.shtml
White House admits Bush wrong about Iraqi nukes
After weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted
President Bush was wrong in his January State of the Union Address
when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in
Africa.
The acknowledgment came as a British parliamentary commission
questioned the reliability of British intelligence about Saddam
Hussein's efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in the run-up
to the war in Iraq.
Bush said in his State of the Union address that the British
government had learned that Saddam recently sought significant
quantities of uranium in Africa.
The president's statement was incorrect because it was based on forged
documents from the African nation of Niger, White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer acknowledged.
An intelligence consultant who was present at two White House
briefings where the uranium report was discussed confirmed that the
President was told the intelligence was questionable and that his
national security advisors urged him not to include the claim in his
State of the Union address.
"The report had already been discredited," said Terrance J. Wilkinson,
a CIA advisor present at two White House briefings.
"This point was clearly made when the President was in the room during
at least two of the briefings."
Bush's response was anger, Wilkinson said.
"He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't
prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who
could," Wilkinson said.
"He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after
American troops secured the country."
To date, American troops have found no proof of the existence of
nuclear weapons in Iraq.
Wilkinson retired two months later but says he wrote "numerous memos"
questioning the wisdom of using "intelligence information that we knew
to be from dubious sources."
A British parliamentary committee has also concluded that Prime
Minister Tony Blair's government mishandled intelligence material on
Iraqi weapons.
John Stanley, a Conservative member of the committee, said so far no
evidence has been found in Iraq to substantiate four key claims,
including that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa as part of an effort
to restart a nuclear weapons program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency told the United Nations in
March that the information about uranium was based on forged
documents.
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| Title: Re: Intelligence consultant confirms that Bush was told about forgeries before address! |
09 Jul 2003 11:50:38 AM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:tnsmgvgbuvin97jf4botegrrve3nmah4l2@4ax.com...
From Capitol Hill Blue, 7/8/03:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_2518.shtml
[...]
"The report had already been discredited," said Terrance J. Wilkinson,
a CIA advisor present at two White House briefings.
"This point was clearly made when the President was in the room during
at least two of the briefings."
Bush's response was anger, Wilkinson said.
That WOULD be a smoking gun, for sure, but can't find a single mention of
this guy anywhere but the capitalhillblue website.
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New definition of irony:
'Today's liberal Democrats are like the supporters of the Third Reich of the
'30's and '40's
- they absolutely trusted the government to "make things right". '
-Comment made on the internet by an ardent GW Bush supporter.
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