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...White House was trying to "knock down" a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, who had disputed the claim--made by President Bush in his State of the Union address--that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger. The Administration had built its case for war on the probability that Saddam Hussein had "reconstituted," in Vice President Dick Cheney's felicitous and inaccurate phrase, his nuclear-weapons program...
...House, having been the deputy Washington bureau chief for TIME. As it happens, that week was a big one at the White House. On that Sunday, the New York Times had published former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's now infamous Op-Ed describing his mission to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium to make nuclear weapons. Wilson said he had found no evidence of that and was confounded as to why the President would claim otherwise in his 2003 State of the Union address. As a freshly minted White House correspondent, I told the grand jury...
...interested in an ancillary question about why government officials, publicly and privately, seemed to be disparaging Wilson. It struck me, as I told the grand jury, as odd and unnecessary, especially after their saying the President's address should not have included the 16-word claim about Saddam and African uranium...
...panel, which also included the University of Baghdad’s deans of science and engineering, said that the problem was as much intellectual as infrastructural. Saddam-era embargoes restricted the flow of both foreign technology and information into Iraq, while professors were barred from attending academic conferences abroad...
...Under Saddam, many of the country’s top intellectuals had fled the country, and Khailanym said that their return is crucial to the rejuvenation of Iraqi universities. She said that since 1980, approximately 30,000 Iraqi academics had fled the country...