The CIA was successful in efforts to remove references to Iraq attempting to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger in President Bush’s October 7, 2002, speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as for drafts of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s upcoming speech to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003. However, “on Tuesday night, January 28, 2003, George Bush delivered an address that included the following sixteen words: ‘The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ Between Sunday night and Tuesday night, someone had overruled the CIA and the secretary of state and, presumably, the National Security Council staff to reinsert the suspect line. The someone, the world would later learn, was Vice President Dick Cheney.”
– John Kiriakou with Michael Ruby, The Reluctant Spy, Page 157