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...took on new life. In September, Tony Blair's government issued a 50-page dossier detailing the case against Saddam, and while much of the evidence in the paper was old, it made the first public claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. At the White House, Ari Fleischer endorsed the British dossier, saying "We agree with their findings...
...think any commission should ever formally call a President to testify," Lehman said, "but I think it is very much in the country's interest--and in both President Clinton's and President Bush's interest--to meet directly with the commissioners." Responded White House press secretary Ari Fleischer: "The White House has been and will continue to cooperate with the commission...
...White House is not contesting the fact that the President made a false claim - merely whether he, or those who prepared his speech, knew at the time that it was false. And holding the line forces White House press secretary Ari Fleischer into a rhetorical dance that can only be called Clintonesque: conceding on the one hand that the claim made by the President was based on forged evidence that Iraq had tried to buy "yellow cake" refined uranium from Niger, but at the same time maintaining that "I see nothing that goes broader that would indicate that there...
...Delay had a bone to pick with the President when he approached him on the Truman balcony at a White House get-together last week. DeLay didn't like press secretary Ari Fleischer's pressuring House Republicans to pass a tax credit for low-income families with children. "Last time I checked," DeLay had snapped to reporters, "he didn't have a vote." DeLay and conservatives resented being forced to accede to what they felt was slapdash legislation--and being made to look miserly for it. Bush didn't back down, saying he wanted a bill passed quickly. The flinty...
...Even Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer has since backed away from the claims over the mobile labs, saying they were "not irrefutable." Nor was that sign that different elements of the administration were spinning incompatible versions of the story. Fleischer this week, for example, dismissed as "fanciful" the suggestion that Saddam might have destroyed his WMD on the eve of an invasion. But among the previous sources of that "fanciful" suggestion was Defense Secretary Rumsfeld...