“On February 12 [2002], the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] issued ‘a finished intelligence product,’ titled ‘Niamey [Niger] Signed an Agreement to Sell 500 Tons of Uranium a Year to Baghdad,’ and passed it to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. Even though the CIA had dismissed the Niger claims, Cheney was able to give them new life. ‘The [CIA] briefer came in. Cheney said, *What about this?,* and the briefer hadn’t heard one word, because no one in the agency thought it was of any significance,’ said Ray McGovern, whose job at the CIA included preparing and delivering the PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] in the Reagan era.”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 239