Novak names names in Plame leak case

[fundingfather]

<p>For someone so dispassionate, you seem to forget some key points:</p>

<p>1) It was not the George Tenet of several months after the fact giving the SoTU speech - it was George Bush who was told by Tenet that the information was a “slam dunk”. So Bush is supposed to look into Tenet’s sole and see that it really wasn’t a slam dunk? </p>

<p>2) As to “the CIA and the State Department repeatedly recommended deleting them from speech after speech because they lacked confidence in the evidence which supposedly supported them.”, this is what that “uncertain” CIA said on the day of the Cincinnati speech:

On October 7, 2002, President Bush delivered the speech in Cincinnati without the uranium reference. On the same day, the CIA prepared comments on a draft White House paper, A Grave and Gathering Danger. The comments suggested a change to the draft language saying “better to generalize the first bullet as follows: Sought uranium from Africa to feed the enrichment process.” The original text from the White House had said “sought uranium oxide, an essential ingredient in the enrichment process, from Africa.” The White House did not publish the paper.

So, go ahead and conjure up whatever nefarious thoughts that you want concerning the CIA trying to send up warning flares about the uranium information and the SoTU speech writers ignoring them, it is clear that as of October, 2002 as well as the day of the SoTU, they were still sticking with their basic story.</p>