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...Saddam's weapons. Democrats looking to make hay from the imbroglio will be asking whether anyone in the administration was leaning on the CIA to endorse the case for war. One question, in particular, that Tenet may have to answer on the Hill is just what transpired during Cheney's visits, reported as "multiple" and "unusual," to CIA headquarters last summer...
...Bush Administration and its British counterparts assure us that given time, they will find evidence of a weapons program in Iraq. But evidence of a program is two degrees of separation from actual weapons of mass destruction, which was the reason they gave for going to war. Vice President Cheney last August told an audience of U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." The Vice President went even...
...resignations of those in the Administration who had misled the President on his State of the Union assertion-since retracted-that Iraq had acquired uranium from an African country. He tried to do this carefully, diplomatically. He wouldn't use the word lie. He wouldn't specify Dick Cheney as the culprit, although the Vice President was clearly the person he had in mind. Uncharacteristically, he stumbled over words and didn't seem at all comfortable. Kerry's modest sidle toward aggression made the evening news; Dean's didn't. Kerry had "won" the day-for a change-and what...
...February 2002, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV had travelled to Niger for the CIA to investigate for Cheney whether the allegations contained in the documents were true. Upon his return, Wilson had offered an assessment to American government officials, which was, in his words, “very unequivocal” in its assertion that the allegations were false. The CIA then would have briefed Cheney’s office orally or in writing, according to Wilson’s op-ed in the New York Times. Nevertheless, on Jan. 28, 2003, President Bush said in his State...
Wilson was shocked because he knew Cheney would have read drafts of the speech. He called a friend in the state department to ask whether Bush was referring to the Niger allegation, but his friend suggested another African country. On March 7, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the U.N. Security Council that the Niger documents were fake. Months since then, the Bush and Blair governments have continuously claimed to have other evidence of the Iraq-Africa connection, yet they were unwilling to reveal it to Congress or Parliament...