Democrat: Bush Official Wanted Iraq Claim
By Ken Guggenheim
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 17, 2003; 10:32 AM
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WASHINGTON -- CIA Director George Tenet told members of Congress a White House official insisted that President Bush's State of the Union address include an assertion about Saddam Hussein's nuclear intentions that had not been verified, a Senate Intelligence Committee member said Thursday.
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The funny thing about this is that back in the runup the war there were lots of downplayed stories about the Administration presuring CIA analysts to 'interpet' the intelligence to support the war. Now it seems they went even farther then that.