Originally posted by Holden McGroin
British Intellegence does report that and they stand by still AFAIK and as far as Google takes me today.
Bush said "British Intel says" and British Intel does say that.
This is after of Course Wilson told him it was false.
In an interview on NBC, Wilson insisted his doubts about the purported Iraq-Niger connection reached the highest levels of government, including Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
In fact, he said, Cheney's office inquired about the purported Niger-Iraq link.
"The question was asked of the CIA by the office of the vice president. The office of the vice president, I am absolutely convinced, received a very specific response to the question it asked, and that response was based upon my trip out there," Wilson said.
Yet nearly a year after he had returned and briefed CIA officials, the assertion that Saddam was trying to obtain uranium from Africa was included in Mr. Bush's State of the Union address.
The International Atomic Energy Agency told the United Nations in March — after the State of the Union — that the information about the uranium procurement efforts was based on forged documents.
A British parliamentary committee concluded Monday that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government mishandled intelligence material on Iraqi weapons — and said key questions remain about the allegations of an attempted uranium deal with Nigeria.
On Monday, the Foreign Affairs Committee said Blair "misrepresented" the status of a dossier published in January.
Blair had referred to it as "further intelligence," although he acknowledged later that it contained material from a graduate thesis published on the Internet.
