Monday, July 05, 2004
Niger Uranium Known to be a Hoax before the war
Do a quick google search on these keywords; "bush knew niger uranium" and you will quickly find reports (pre-war) from all sorts of news agencies that assert that he knew this was false. The agencies include CNN, the LA Times, the BBC, and hundreds of others. Yet, no investigation.
Here are a few of them:
Here are a few of them:
- CNN: A former U.S. diplomat said Sunday he told the Bush administration that Iraq had not tried to buy uranium from Niger in the late 1990s to develop nuclear weapons.
Former Ambassador to Gabon Joseph Wilson told NBC's "Meet the Press" he informed the CIA and the State Department that such information was false months before U.S. and British officials used it during the debate that led to war. - CBS: The CIA sent a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, to check out the Niger claim in early 2002 and found no evidence to support it.
- BBC: Doubts about a claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were aired 10 months before Mr Bush included the allegation in his key State of the Union address this year, a CIA official has told the BBC.
All articles in this archive are used under "fair use" as they are important to the national discussion of whether or not the people of this country are being deceived by their government. These articles are used as evidence in that discussion.
