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After months of Administration officials trading accusations over whether the Niger uranium story is accurate and how it got into the State of the Union, senior officials disclose Wilson's mission and its findings to the Washington Post without identifying the former Ambassador...
Vice President Dick Cheney's office asks the CIA to look into British reports that Saddam Hussein's government attempted to buy uranium from Niger. Agency officials decide to dispatch ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson to the West African nation; after eight days he returns and calls the intelligence "bogus and unrealistic." The agency sends a memo to the White House on March 9 summarizing Wilson's findings...
...role in exposing a spy, Mrs. Bush had a week of mending fences with the world and being cheered by schoolchildren. Not bad for a woman who less than nine years ago was a stay-at-home mom married to a businessman. Now she's a globe-trotting goodwill ambassador...
...also a goodwill ambassador to the press. In contrast to the President, who rarely visits with reporters, Mrs. Bush was chatty, constantly available, eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...Ambassador to the Philippines Francis Riccardone told journalists last week the U.S. was "very, very concerned" about links between J.I. and the M.I.L.F. He warned that unless the latter group severed those ties, the U.S. would cut M.I.L.F.-controlled areas out of the $30 million in aid the U.S. has pledged if secessionists sign a peace accord with Manila...