It's getting better all the time...

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Tenet: Didn't Know Uranium Claim Was in Speech
By Walter Pincus
THE WASHINGTON POST
July 17, 2003

Washington - CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that his staff did not bring to his attention a questionable statement about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa before President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address.

But Tenet told the senators during a nearly five-hour session behind closed doors that he took responsibility for the now famous 16-word sentence because an agency official had approved it after negotiations with the White House, according to congressional and administration sources present at the session.

"Members were stunned," according to one Democratic senator in the meeting, "because he said he basically wasn't aware of the sentence until recently."

At issue was Bush's claim in the Jan. 28 speech that the British government had learned that Saddam Hussein "recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The claim was subsequently determined to be based largely on forged documents, sparking a new furor over the uses of intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. The White House now says it should not have been cited in the speech.

So, they managed to notice if for the October 8 speech but failed for the State of the Union?!?

I demand at least a plausible lie!