“Six months after the [January 28, 2003] State of the Union address, it emerged that chief White House speechwriter Michael Gerson, along with [Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley and others, had received a CIA memo dated October 5, 2002, which objected to the [Iraq-Niger] uranium claim in a White House speech draft.”
– Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Pages 216-217