2002 Memo Doubted Uranium Sale Claim
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - A high-level intelligence assessment by the Bush administration concluded in early 2002 that the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq was "unlikely" because of a host of economic, diplomatic and logistical obstacles, according to a secret memo that was recently declassified by the State Department.
Among other problems that made such a sale improbable, the assessment by the State Department's intelligence analysts concluded, was that it would have required Niger to send "25 hard-to-conceal 10-ton tractor-trailers" filled with uranium across 1,000 miles and at least one international border.
I'm sure that apology to Ambassador Wilson will be forthcoming, oh, any second now.
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What happened to those Phase II hearings, anyhoo? The ones that were s'posed to look into the uses of the intellingence by the assministration?
Those hearings are gone with the wind, sis.
I doubt the rethugs are going to do anything that would embarrass them any further right now.
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