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   From: email@BelowThe.Text   
      
   On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:19:48 -0600, " \"- Prof. Jonez©\""   
    claims:   
      
   >Lie #2: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein   
   >recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."   
   >   
   >-President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address   
   >   
   >Fact: This whopper   
      
   	 A statement the Brits still stand behind as accurate.   
      
   CONDOLEEZZA RICE: The British, by the way, still stand by their report   
   to this very day in its accuracy, because they tell us that they had   
   sources that were not compromised in any way by later -- in March or   
   April -- later reports that there were some forgeries.   
      
   Now, we have said very clearly that the information went in on the   
   basis of a number of sources, but we have a different standard for   
   presidential speeches, which is that we don't just put in things that   
   are in intelligence sources. We put in things that we believe the   
   intelligence agency has high confidence in, and that's why we have a   
   clearance process.   
      
   WOLF BLITZER: They didn't have high confidence in this ... That's why   
   we had to pin it on British intelligence, as opposed to U.S.   
   intelligence.   
      
   RICE: The British intelligence report, as far as we knew, was a report   
   that was underpinned by reporting that was solid. We sent it out to   
   the agency for clearance, said, "Can you stand by this?" They said,   
   apparently, that's inconsistent. I'm understanding now that the   
   sentence is accurate.   
      
   As George Tenet has said, accuracy is not the standard. Of course, the   
   sentence was accurate. But we were asking about confidence. And George   
   Tenet rightly says that the agency cleared the speech, it should not   
   have been cleared with that sentence in.   
   http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/13/cnna.wolf.rice/   
      
   Cordially,   
   Ken (NY) - Chairman, VRWC   
      
   email: http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm   
      
   What we are responding to:   
   http://www.pentagonattack911.com/wtc.htm   
      
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