PogueMoran
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Well, if the Washington Post says it, then it must be true. :roll:
Are they talking about this 2002 NIE Report???
Key Judgments (from October 2002 NIE) - Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons
And from the Butler Committee:
Global security got it wrong. The niger claim was not apart of the key judgments section which carry greater weight. The key judgments start on page 9 of the NIE which I have posted below. The information you posted regarding that takes place on page 24 of the NIE.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20060407/nie_cia_declass.pdf
Also if you read page 87 of the document you'll see information from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research stating the claims were highly dubious. At the time there was no consensus and they had been warned that the claims are not established as fact. So even less reason to use it in the State of the Union