In Sept., CIA Warned Brits Not to Use Niger Uranium Story

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n Sept., CIA Warned Brits Not to Use Niger Uranium Story; Early Drafts of Bush's SoTU Did Not Mention Britain -- Something Wrong Here!

"The CIA tried unsuccessfully in early September 2002 to persuade the British government to drop from an official intelligence paper a reference to Iraqi attempts to buy uranium in Africa that Bush included in his State of the Union address four months later, senior Bush administration officials said... The early drafts of the speech did not include Britain as the source of the information, according to administration officials. A senior official denied that Britain was inserted in the final draft because the CIA and others in the U.S. intelligence community were concerned that the charge could not be supported." But the CIA doubted the Brits to begin with -- why would they want them cited? Who changed the final draft? Condi? Rove? The NSC? "The British addition was made only 'because they were the first to say it publicly in their September paper,' the official said."

Just because they were the first? But if the CIA didn't have corroborating evidence -- why was the Niger story used?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40684-2003Jul10.html