"The report had already been discredited," said Terrance J. Wilkinson, a CIA advisor present at two White House briefings. "This point was clearly made when the President was in the room during at least two of the briefings." Wilkinson retired two months later but says he wrote "numerous memos" questioning the wisdom of using "intelligence information that we knew to be from dubious sources."
And you'll be hearing more about him as time goes on.
Here's the original article:
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Your link does not include your quote.
A couple notes on your linked article:
"After weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush was wrong in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa."
Notice they didn't give a direct quote- shoddy jouralism and it's wrong.
"John Stanley, a Conservative member of the committee, said so far no evidence has been found in Iraq to substantiate four key claims, including that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa as part of an effort to restart a nuclear weapons program."
He might have said something like this, but Blair corrected him [Blair's meeting with committe was on Cspan- was fairly interesting, Blair gave an excellent answers at the Q & A session]
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