“On June 19 [2003], The New Republic posted online an article that yet again cited the unidentified former diplomat [Joseph Wilson]–and presented a muddled version of what had happened [when Wilson traveled to Niger to investigate allegations that they sold uranium to Iraq]. …The article contained yet another in-your-face quote from the still anonymous retired ambassador: ‘They knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie…They were unpersuasive about aluminum tubes and added this to make their case more persuasive.’ ”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 244