By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.The administration’s claim was discredited? Only if the AP is using Joe Wilson’s discredited NY Times commentary and is ignoring what he actually told the CIA. From the Senate Intelligence Report on pre Iraq war intelligence, the CIA's reports officer had the opposite take on Joe Wilson’s debrief:
…he judged that the most important fact in the report was that the Nigerian officials admitted that the Iraqi delegation had traveled there in 1999, and that the Nigerian Prime Minister believed the Iraqis were interested in purchasing uranium, because this provided some confirmation of foreign government service reporting. (see page 46).The British would probably be one of those foreign government services the CIA had in mind. As far as I know the British still stand by their claim, which was validated by Joe Wilson. Not really a claim the AP can discount as discredited without citing an unimpeachable source.
How discredited was Joe Wilson when caught in the lie? Enough to be dropped like a hot potato from the campaign of the man discredited for the claim of having served in Cambodia, during Christmas, during President Nixon’s term, seared in his memory (see Guinness Book of World Records – most lies in one sentence).
As with the Jamal Hussein debacle, AP editors have a world view not hindered by reality. When stories hit their desk confirming their views, fact checking is deemed unnecessary
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