“That is what we know from the Libby trial, and it is some of the clearest evidence yet that this administration did not get duped by faulty intelligence; at the very least, it cherry-picked and hyped intelligence to justify the war. What Mr. Wilson found, and subsequent investigations confirmed, was that there was one trip in 1999 — not ‘recently,’ but four years before Mr. Bush’s statement — by an Iraqi official to Niger and that during that trip, uranium was never discussed.”

From the New York Times, here.

Posted Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
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