{"id":4369,"date":"2007-04-05T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2007-04-06T03:29:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T10:29:48","slug":"washington-post-almost-catches-up-with-niger-uranium-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Almost Catches Up With Niger Uranium Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

*** Blogged by BRAD BLOG<\/a> D.C. Correspondent Margie Burns<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, April 3, 2007 the Washington Post<\/em> finally got around to publishing a front-page article, “How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War,”\u009d<\/a> on the bogus Niger\/uranium\/Iraq story underlying those infamous “16 words”\u009d in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech. <\/p>\n

The Post<\/em> subtitle is “Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim.”\u009d A more accurate subtitle would have read, “Intelligence Community Caved to Bush-Cheney Pressure.”\u009d<\/p>\n

{Ed Note: We might suggest “Mainstream Media Failure to do Job, Scrutinize Admin’s Iraq-Niger Claim, Led to Endless War” – BF<\/i>}<\/p>\n

I, among others, am familiar with the chronology because I wrote about it almost a full three years ago…<\/p>\n

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<\/a>\"\"The article, from a book by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce also released Tuesday (The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq<\/i><\/a>\"\", Rodale Press), follows a chronology most BRAD BLOG<\/a> may be familiar with by now, about some obviously forged documents purporting a deal by Saddam to acquire uranium for nukes.<\/p>\n

Better late than never:<\/p>\n