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Thread #61378 Message #986506
Posted By: Greg F.
19-Jul-03 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Facts? I don't need no steenking facts!!
Subject: BS: Facts? I don't need no steenking facts!!
Glad to see the Administration is at last beginning to tell the truth: --------
Faults found in Iraq report
By DANA MILBANK and DANA PRIEST, Washington Post First published: Saturday, July 19, 2003
WASHINGTON -- President Bush and his national security adviser did not read the most authoritative pre-war assessment of U.S. intelligence on Iraq, including a State Department claim that an allegation Bush would later use in his State of the Union address was "highly dubious," White House officials said Friday...
A senior administration official who briefed reporters Friday said neither Bush nor National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice read the NIE in its entirety...
the official said: "The President of the United States is not a fact-checker."