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...director George Tenet takes the blame for not having the Niger claim cut from the State of the Union but discloses that the National Security Council (NSC) pressed to include it. Eleven days later, NSC deputy Stephen Hadley admits he forgot that he had seen two memos from the agency expressing serious doubts about the intelligence...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is not with President George W. Bush, her deputy, Stephen Hadley, is. A longtime policy hand, he has a quiet, low-key manner that makes him a perfect person to deliver tough news to the President. That's what he did last week when he disclosed that he had belatedly found two memos from the CIA expressing serious doubts about intelligence claims that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium in Africa. He thus offered himself as the fall guy for the disputed sentence about uranium that wound up in Bush's State...
...buck finally stopped with Hadley? The White House said Rice's deputy--who is responsible for mountains of interagency approvals, meetings and cables every day--simply forgot about the CIA memos. But others suggest that Hadley's hard-line views on Iraq--going back to the first Bush Administration, when he was an arms-control expert under Defense Secretary Dick Cheney--may have influenced which memos he remembered and which he didn't. "He comes across as this mild-mannered, quite decent lawyer who wants everyone to feel like the process has worked fairly," says a former senior staff member...
...that the agency had doubts about the veracity of the evidence. Also in September, the CIA tried to persuade the British government to drop the allegation completely. To this day, London stands by the claim. In October, Tenet personally intervened with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's deputy, Stephen Hadley, to remove a line about the African ore in a speech that Bush was giving in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also that month, CIA officials included the Brits' yellowcake story in their classified 90-page National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons programs. The CIA said it could neither verify the Niger...
...found a loophole in the rule," she says proudly. "They won't stop us from wearing a towel. So I would just wrap that around myself." But should kids have to find loopholes to feel comfortable? "Yes, there's a coercion of sorts with the pool," admits Dean Hadley, 55, who owns the Cypress Cove resort. "But they have a choice of getting into the pool...