Re: The "Lie"

The Dubious Suicide of George Tenet
     By William Rivers Pitt
    
     Monday 14 July 2003

     Things have reached a pretty pass indeed when you apologize for 
making a mistake, but nobody believes your apology. So it is today 
with CIA Director Tenet, and by proxy George W. Bush and his 
administration.

     On Friday evening, CIA Director Tenet publicly jumped on the 
Niger evidence hand grenade, claiming the use in Bush's State of the 
Union Address in January 2003 of data from known forgeries to support 
the Iraq war was completely his fault. He never told Bush's people 
that the data was corrupted, and it was his fault those "sixteen 
words" regarding Iraqi attempts to procure uranium from Niger for a 
nuclear program made it into the text of the speech.

     Problem solved, right? Condoleezza Rice and Don Rumsfeld had 
been triangulating on Tenet since Thursday, claiming the CIA had 
never informed the White House about the dubious nature of the Niger 
evidence. Tenet, like a good political appointee, fell on his sword 
and took responsibility for the error. On Saturday, White House 
spokesman Ari Fleischer told the press corps that Bush had "moved on" 
from this controversy.

     Not so fast, said the New York Times editorial board. The paper 
of record for the Western world published an editorial on Saturday 
entitled "The Uranium Fiction." The last time the Times editors used 
language this strong was when Bush, in a moment of seemingly deranged 
hubris, tried to nominate master secret-keeper Henry Kissinger to 
chair the 9/11 investigation:

<read article at: http://truthout.org/docs_03/071403A.shtml>

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Tink
France

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