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...spun, rather than a life-and-death struggle to be won. In this case the 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...
...Iraqi and suspected al-Qaeda member, identified only as Ibrahim Mohamed K, right, was arrested in the city of Mainz in January for allegedly planning suicide attacks in Iraq. Authorities say he also tried to buy uranium in Luxembourg...
...website saying that "some government officials" had provided him with information similar to what Novak had reported. Cooper suggested in his article that the sources were seeking to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who found evidence contradicting the Administration's prewar claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons. Judith Miller of the New York Times may have spoken to the same sources, though she didn't publish anything. (Nonetheless, she, like Cooper, could face jail time for declining to reveal her contacts.) The New York Times criticized Time Inc.'s decision to hand...
...Joseph Wilson. Ironically, neither Cooper nor Miller actually outed Plame. That revelation was made almost two years ago by syndicated columnist Robert Novak commenting on Wilson's allegations that the Bush Administration, which had sent him to Niger to investigate claims of Iraq's attempt to buy weapons-grade uranium there, had ignored his finding that there was no credible evidence of such an attempt. Novak said "two senior Administration officials" had told him the CIA had dispatched Wilson at the suggestion of his wife, whom Novak revealed as Plame, "an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction...
Soon after taking office, Anaya also began exasperating New Mexicans by barnstorming the country as head of Hispanic Force '84, an organization designed to increase Latin influence in the Democratic Party. Nor was he helped by the recession that hit New Mexico as its mining industry, notably uranium extraction, continued to decline. Moreover, the Governor was faced with severe revenue losses caused by a wholesale tax cut enacted the year before he was elected. Anaya was forced to ask for a $97 million tax increase that he had campaigned against, and he quickly found himself at odds with lawmakers over...