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George Tenet Takes The Fall for Bush's Big Lie

Somebody had to be sacrificed to deflect blame July 12, 2003 CIA Admits It Allowed Error in Bush Speech Comment about Iraq seeking uranium 'should never have been included,' Tenet says. White House publicly criticizes the agency. News excerpt from the article by Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON: The CIA wrongly allowed President Bush to tell the American people that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa, despite analysts' doubts about the information, the agency's director, George J. Tenet, acknowledged Friday. "These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," Tenet said, referring to a section of January's State of the Union address in which Bush said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." <snip> The CIA has acknowledged that in February 2002 — almost a year before the State of the Union speech — it dispatched a former U.S. diplomat to Africa to investigate reports that Iraq had approached Niger for uranium. That envoy, Joseph C. Wilson IV, concluded that the allegations were false and reported his findings to the agency upon his return. In a television interview this week, Wilson said he assumed that his findings had been shared with White House officials, including Cheney. But Cheney's office insists that never happened. Rice said Friday that Wilson's mission "was not known to anybody in the White House" and that she didn't learn of it until a month ago. [ Ed: she did not explain why the American public is only learning about it a month later ] Another damaging disclosure came Thursday, when intelligence officials acknowledged that the CIA had tried last fall to warn the British government away from mentioning the Iraq-uranium claims in public dossiers used to make the case for war. That raised questions of why the agency would warn off the British but, months later, fail to take similar steps with drafters of the president's State of the Union address. <snip> See the full article at latimes.com