re: Its sounding like the Uranium claim was known to be bogus before the speech
"It remains to be seen whether some staffer improperly briefed the President or if he just thru it into the speech on a whim while knowing it was false informations."
Yeah! We can't hold the president as ultimately accountable for what he says, seeing as he is only the CinC of the whole effing country.
As long as we don't, then he can hide behind staffers and aids for years. Nixon did it, Clinton did it and Reagan did it.