I need to log off, so I'll check back tomorrow.
The Italian reporter came out in July 2003 and said she had earlier obtained the forged Niger documents and turned them over to "US diplomats."
July was when portions of the NIE were declassified.
July 1 was when Blix retired.
July 2, 2003 HIllary Clinton was in Paris peddling her book and...Chirac's wife said she would support a Hillary presidential run.
On July 4th 2003 Wilson and Valerie had reporters over to his house according to the Wash Post's Leiby & Pincus, who wrote that he showed a reporter some photos of himself with Bush's parents. Note that Wilson's contact with reporters came before Novak's article.
On July 5, 2003 Waxman wrote letter to Bush "outlining a letter he received from the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the forged Niger documents. The letter "raises new questions about why the administration withheld the evidence from the IAEA for over six crucial weeks in December and January and - even then - failed to share the conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials that the evidence was bogus."
[* My note: Why would some unknown person in the IAEA contact Henry Waxman, and not, say, the President? Rumsfeld? Condi Rice? The US UN ambassador? The Senate intelligence committee? Judging from this, the IAEA was ticked off because it wanted information the US didn't want to give it. Now why would the IAEA want US intel? How did it know the US had intel it wanted? How would the IAEA know what the conclusions of "US intelligence officials" were if the US "intelligence officials" weren't giving intel to the IAEA?]
July 6 was when Wilson's op ed was published.
July 7, 2003 Bush leaves for Africa
JULY 8, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE PUBLISHES DOUG THOMPSON ARTICLE UNDER THE TITLE "White House Admits Bush Lied About Iraqi Nukes" - See the mythical "TERRENCE J WILKINSON")
The bold headline was backed by an equally assertive lead-in, which stated "After weeks of denial, the White House Monday finally admitted President Bush lied in his January State of the Union Address when he claimed Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa." This assertion went far beyond what other news organizations were reporting, which was that the Bush administration had admitted that the claim made in the State of the Union Address was based on information the President later found to be unreliable. There were other eye-raising details in the story, however.
The article quoted a "CIA advisor" named Terrance J. Wilkinson, claiming he had been present at two White House briefings attended by the President. "The report had already been discredited," the story quoted Wilkinson as stating. "This point was clearly made when the president was in the room during at least two of the briefings" said Wilkinson, who claimed Bush responded in anger. "He said that if the current operatives working for the CIA couldn't prove the story was true, then the agency had better find some who could," the Capitol Hill Blue story continued Wilkinson's quote. "He said he knew the story was true and so would the world after American troops secured the country." Wilkinson claimed to have written "numerous memos" questioning the use of "intelligence information that we knew to be from dubious sources." While American troops continue to search Iraq for a smoking gun regarding weapons of mass destruction, these allegations, if true, would be the smoking gun the left wing of American politics has been searching for in their quest to discredit the Bush administration.
- by freeper William McKinley, GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, July 10, 2003