BBC: White House was told EVEN EARLIER

[Armstead]

More emerges, from BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/americas/3056626.stm

Bush 'warned over uranium claim'
BBC

Soldiers are yet to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
The CIA warned the US Government that claims about Iraq's nuclear ambitions were not true months before President Bush used them to make his case for war, the BBC has learned.
Doubts about a claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were aired 10 months before Mr Bush included the allegation in his key State of the Union address this year, the CIA has told the BBC.

On Tuesday, the White House for the first time officially acknowledged that the Niger claim was wrong and should not have been used in the president's State of the Union speech in January.

But the CIA has said that a former US diplomat had already established the claim was false in March 2002 - and that the information had been passed on to government departments, including the White House, well before Mr Bush mentioned it in the speech.

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[Nazgul35]

1. drip...drip...drip....

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[Demobrat]

2. OMFG. I did read it right.

The CIA has told the BBC. The CIA has told the BBC. Whoa. Either I need to lay off the green stuff, or something very, very wild is going on.

[ibegurpard]

4. Thanks for pointing that out.

I skimmed right over it.

:wow:

[SOteric]

3. I'll bet Mr. Blair

is feeling like quite a goober just now.

[revcarol]

5. Tony Blair's other source:

We told(insert name of country here) and THEY told Blair....good solid evidence, that!!

I hope BLAIR is catching hell. We could not have gone alone> Blair, the criminal enabler.

[billbuckhead]

6. Drudge's top story is that the "BBC takes on the White House"

I guess the RepuKKKe party line is going to be that Chimpy and the misadministration is more credible than the BBC. I heard a radio tycoon on Charlie Rose call the BBC tonite the "Baghdad Broadcasting Company". So that is the strategy. I bet Newsmax will have it soon now that Sludge has laid down the baseline. Here's the BBC link without going through Matt Sludge.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3056626.stm>

[JawJaw]

8. BBC

My girlfriend works for the BBC - yesterday Greg Dyke and Gavyn Davies (the 2 head honchos) sent an email to every BBC employee reiterating their commitment to impartiality and honest reporting (in the face of puerile attacks from Blair's spin machine).


The BBC is pissed off in a big way.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. wish we had a BBC!...BBC rocks