What did the President know and when did he know it?

[9215]

This famous question asked by Howard Baker during Watergate is again, nearly three decades hence, begging to be answered. It has come down to this:

Upon orders from Vice President Dick Cheney the CIA asked ex-Ambassador (Gabon) Joseph Wilson, a career diplomat, to go to Nigeria in February of 2002 to look into a purported sale of uranium "yellow cake" (lightly processed ore) by that country to Iraq . Wilson determined there was no evidence of a sale. One pre-supposes that Wilson's determination was imparted to someone in the intelligence community and that this important information, importance based on the fact that Cheney specifically requested an investigation into the matter, was given to the Bush Administration.

Just today Ari Fleischer is contending that the President in fact did not know about the "non-sale" before his January 28th 2003 State of the Union Address where he stated that Nigeria was selling uranium to Iraq. Wilson is contending that the Adminstration must have known.

This "fudging" is moving into the category of lie no matter how you cut this cake. If Wilson's information was not passed onto the White House then what exactly was he doing there in the first place and what happened to it?

Those in the CIA that reported Wilson's conclusions to the Bush Administration should be questioned on this, but there is little doubt that they will back Wilson's contention that Bush knew the Niger uranium sale was bogus and he went ahead and lied anyway.

What did he know about the sale and when did he know it?


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[mike_c]

1. you know how when you stack kid's wooden blocks up higher and...

...higher, there comes a time when you can feel the utter instability in your very bones. Soon it will all come crashing down.

[9215]

2. No kidding

I see this exactly like that. This fucker and his cabal of fascists are getting hammered.

When I put this together today it just clicked: "You know, this is the beginning of the end of that bastard".


I just want to see how he tumbles with both houses of Congress and the Judiciary being REpug. I think the Repugs will see the writing on the wall and know that their whole scam is coming apart and they will start sacrificing each other. During Watergate dems controlled the Congress. This should be real interesting. I cannot imagine how the REpugs will defend Bush for much longer, but any indictment of him will also, via parenthesis, be an indictment of themselves.