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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The CIA dismissed his tea conversations out of hand. And that was the end of it. Until the entire 16 word issue surfaced once the docs - that Wilson never saw - were claimed to be forgeries (still disputed by the Brits) and Wilson mugged for the cameras at every opportunity to decry Bush and state that he knew this all along.
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That's just not true. When Bush speechwriters tried to put the allegation in a speech he gave in Cincinnati in the fall before the SOTU, the CIA debunked the Niger thing and it was taken out of the speech. Where do you get the idea that the CIA dismissed Wilson's report out of hand?
eta: Look at page 42 of the Senate Report. After it finishes the description of Wilson's 2002 trip to Niger, the next paragraph explains that the intel was put in an intelligence assessment titled,
Niger: Sale of Uranium to Iraq is Unlikely. They didn't change the assessment after they debriefed Wilson.
e again ta: The report, as a whole, certainly suggests that there were those in the intel community who didn't listen to him, but it also suggests that he was right.
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