BOMBSHELL! Wolfowitz committee instructed WH use Iraq/uranium in SOTU

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/07-16-03Leopold/07-16-03leopold.html

EXCLUSIVE!

Wolfowitz committee instructed White House to use Iraq/uranium reference in State of the Union speech


By Jason Leopold
Online Journal Assistant Editor

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003—A Pentagon committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, advised George W. Bush to include a reference in his January State of the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger to bolster the case for war in Iraq, despite the fact that the CIA warned Wolfowitz's committee that the information was unreliable, according to a CIA intelligence official and four members of the Senate's intelligence committee who have been investigating the issue.

The senators and the CIA official said they could be forced out of government and brought up on criminal charges for leaking the information to this reporter and as a result requested anonymity. The senators said they plan to question CIA Director George Tenet in a closed-door hearing to find out whether Wolfowitz and members of a committee he headed misled Bush and if the Bush knew about the erroneous information prior to his State of the Union address.

Spokespeople for Wolfowitz and Tenet vehemently denied the accusations. Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, would not return repeated calls for comment.

The revelations by the CIA official and the senators, if true, would prove that Tenet, who last week said he erred by allowing the uranium reference to be included in the State of the Union address, took the blame for an intelligence failure that he was not responsible for. The lawmakers said it could also lead to a widespread probe of prewar intelligence.

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here's what BUZZFLASH headline reads so far,
but doesnt report the Wolfowitz info, YET -

Thursday, July 17, 2003

Should be a Bombshell, But the White House is Already Lying About the Lie: Tenet Told Senators that White House Official Insisted Iraq Uranium Claim be Included in State of the Union. Talk About a Smoking Gun.

link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030717/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

Tenet Says Official Wanted Iraq Claim
Thu Jul 17,10:32 AM ET

By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet told members of Congress a White House official insisted that President Bush (news - web sites)'s State of the Union address include an assertion about Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s nuclear intentions that had not been verified, a Senate Intelligence Committee member said Thursday.

Sen. Dick Durbin, who was present for a 4 1/2-hour appearance by Tenet behind closed doors with Intelligence Committee members Wednesday, said Tenet named the official. But the Illinois Democrat said that person's identity could not be revealed because of the confidentiality of the proceedings

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[DrBB]

1. So now WH demands the FBI investigate

...the senators, right? Hope they don't just roll over and say okay, like they did over the 9/11 commission.

[DagmarK]

2. So, all of Rummy's DENIALS......as head of the pentagon......

On sunday about not knowing a thing about the niger/sotu thing.....were all lies as well?

He did seem awfully sedate under tough questions from Stephanopolus

[Ekaterina]

3. obviously knows

they can lie and cheat the American people with impunity. When will the citizens of this country realize that these CREEPS do not have our best interests at heart???

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

4. whore corp news propaganda is all Americans get on tv

the average American doesnt have the time or desire
to see that their emperor is wearing no clothes.

FAUX News and Rush Limbaugh, and hate radio is all
the rt-wing slopeheads understand.

Bush could be caught with a naked girl in the White House
and the rt-wing would claim its all Clinton's fault,
"Clinton corrupted Geogie' would be the rt-wing cry.


haaahaaa haaa the right-wing hatred of anything is bred
with bigotry, racism, lies and false patriotism....
otherwise known to the rest of the world as fascism.

[Nederland]

5. You heard it here first

Here's the new Whitehouse line on this flap:

"Bush never said in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Niger."