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Edited on Fri Jul-18-03 10:23 AM by Brotherjohn
... that they didn't know there were even DOUBTS about the alleged Iraq uranium purchase?
Doesn't what we know today now PROVE that the White House publicly LIED, and RECENTLY, on this issue?
Quoting Condoleeza Rice on June 8, 2003 (Meet the Press): "We did not know at the time -- no one knew at the time, in our circles -- maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course, it was information that was mistaken."
On the same day (This Week with George Stephanopoulos): "George, somebody, somebody down may have known. But I will tell you that when this issue was raised with the intelligence community... the intelligence community did not know at that time, or at levels that got to us, that this, that there were serious questions about this report. "
Now, the first quote could feasibly be "technically accurate" (they're big on that), because maybe they were so incompetent that they did not yet see that the documents were FORGERIES, even though the entire intelligence community had already discredited the story anyway. But the latter quote, that they "did not know at the time" that there were "serious questions about this report", is a bald-faced LIE, given what we know now.
I know there are more instances of WH personnel saying in the last month or so (since the Wilson/Niger story was published) that they did not know there were doubts about the report at all before the SOTU. If anyone has any citations, please post them here.
Such lies are being forgotten in the avalanche of new information and changing stories by the White House, despite the fact that the new information reveals the previous stories to be lies.
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