{"id":276,"date":"2003-12-24T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T10:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2003-12-24T06:38:41","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T10:38:41","slug":"highlighting-the-affirmative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting the affirmative"},"content":{"rendered":"
Washington Post<\/a>: The President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has concluded that the White House made a questionable claim in January’s State of the Union address about Saddam Hussein’s efforts to obtain nuclear materials because of its desperation to show that Hussein had an active program to develop nuclear weapons, according to a well-placed source familiar with the board’s findings.<\/p>\n

In the speech Jan. 28, President Bush cited British intelligence in asserting that Hussein had tried to buy uranium from an unnamed country in Africa. The White House later said the claim should not have been made, after reports that the intelligence community expressed doubts it was true. After reviewing the matter for several months, the intelligence board — chaired by former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft — has determined that there was “no deliberate effort to fabricate” a story, the source said. Instead, the source said, the board believes the White House was so anxious “to grab onto something affirmative” about Hussein’s nuclear ambitions that it disregarded warnings from the intelligence community that the claim was questionable.<\/p><\/div>\n

I see. So I wasn’t lying to my parents when I told them that party I wanted to go to was really just a little get-together with my study group.<\/p>\n

I was merely highlighting the affirmative.<\/p>\n

When will the Bush administration affirm the identity of the source behind Valerie Plame’s outing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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