Re: The "Lie"

At 16:26 -0700 7/16/03, Neil Stevens wrote about The "Lie":

|So, I pose this question to anyone, not just Mr. Seigo:  How exactly was
|Bush lying to say that the British government believed that Saddam
|Hussein's agents attempted to acquire Uranium in Niger, when Blair to this
|very day still believes it?

Core of weapons case crumbling
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

Of the nine main conclusions in the British government document 
"Iraq's weapons of mass destruction", not one has been shown to be 
conclusively true.

The confusion evident about one of the claims, that Iraq sought 
uranium from Niger despite having no civilian nuclear programme, is 
the latest example of the process under which the allegations made so 
confidently last September have been undermined.

The CIA has admitted that the claim should not have been in President 
Bush's State of the Union speech.

It turns out that the CIA and the British intelligence agency MI6 
passed each other like ships in the night and did not share 
information.

Correspondents attending a Foreign Office briefing last week were 
astounded when an official remarked that there had been no duty on 
Britain to pass its information on Niger, which it obtained from "a 
foreign intelligence service", to Washington as it was "up to the 
other intelligence service to do so."

Apparently there is a protocol among intelligence services which 
could not be broken despite the grave nature of the information and 
the use to which it was put - in this case, to help justify going to 
war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3063361.stm

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