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:: 7.24.2003 ::
Gentlemen, we have a scapegoat! Bush's deputy national security advisor, Stephen Hadley, is taking the blame for allowing those infamous 16 words into Bush's State of the Union speech. The White House is backpedalling wildly now - on Tuesday the CIA provided hard evidence in that "top White House officials knew that the CIA seriously disputed the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Africa long before the claim was included in Bush's January address to the nation." Specifically, the CIA sent two memos to Hadley in the beginning of October "expressing doubts about the Africa claims." CIA director George Tenet even called him before the president's Oct. 7th speech, "asking that the Africa allegation be removed" from the speech entirely. Yet somehow, miraculously, the memos and the conversation with Mr. Tenet slipped Hadley's mind not only in the process of working on Bush's speeches, but after the fact as well. "I should have recalled . . . that there was controversy associated with the uranium issue," he said. Oh RIIIIILLY. Personally, I would find that kind of information rather hard to forget.
:: Deb 3:20 PM :: permalink ::
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