Joe Wilson is under attack from the Orwellian REWRITE
division of the US Senate and the "US Mainstream News
Media," meanwhile, his wife, Valerie Plame is as yet
unavenged...So Bubba weighs in...on Niger yellow
cake...Of course, his remarks on this Iraq-related
scandal are *highlighted* on British TV and in the
British free press...And in regard to the 9/11-related
"investigation" of Sandy Berger, the LNS simply wants
to express its hope that he made duplicates...
Michael White, Guardian: Mr Clinton told Sir David Frost: "Let me just say one other thing. Now this doesn't apply to the UK, it applies to America. There is no evidence that the CIA told the president or the White House that Saddam Hussein had gotten uranium yellow cake from Niger, or was close to having a nuclear weapon, a representation that was made.
"Now the intelligence in the UK may have told Prime
Minister Blair but the evidence is to the contrary in
America. And there is no evidence that the CIA ever
said that Saddam Hussein was tied to al-Qaida and
could have had anything to do with September 11
directly or indirectly," he said.
The implication of his remarks was that untrustworthy
sources had briefed the White House and other
agencies.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1264122,00.html
Clinton reopens book on Iraqi bid to buy uranium in
Africa
Michael White, political editor
Monday July 19, 2004
The Guardian
Tony Blair's ally and former US president Bill Clinton
yesterday reopened the sensitive issue of Saddam
Hussein's attempts to buy uranium in Africa.
Speaking on BBC1's Breakfast with Frost, Mr Clinton,
who is promoting his memoirs, said there was "no
evidence" the CIA had ever told George Bush about the
claim.
Though it has not been stated in the four official
inquiries into British intelligence, London's source
for its claims about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium -
widely repeated in the US until discredited - almost
certainly came from French intelligence.
France has much influence in Niger, the west African
state in which Iraq allegedly tried to buy the
so-called "yellow cake".
A convention between intelligence services allows a
provider of data shared with an ally to control
further dissemination. British sources say that Paris,
in this instance, refused further dissemination, even
when the US basis for a similar claim proved to come
from crudely forged documents.
The Butler report said "there was some evidence that
by 2002 an agreement for a sale had been reached", and
that statements in the UK government's dossier and by
the prime minister to the commons about Iraqi attempts
to buy such ore "were well-founded".
Mr Clinton told Sir David Frost: "Let me just say one
other thing. Now this doesn't apply to the UK, it
applies to America. There is no evidence that the CIA
told the president or the White House that Saddam
Hussein had gotten uranium yellow cake from Niger, or
was close to having a nuclear weapon, a representation
that was made.
"Now the intelligence in the UK may have told Prime
Minister Blair but the evidence is to the contrary in
America. And there is no evidence that the CIA ever
said that Saddam Hussein was tied to al-Qaida and
could have had anything to do with September 11
directly or indirectly," he said.
The implication of his remarks was that untrustworthy
sources had briefed the White House and other
agencies.
The moral, he said, was not to blame the CIA or other
agencies for things they had not done or got wrong.