Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “George Stephanopoulos subsequently asked me on his Sunday-morning show [ABC’s This Week] on June 8 [2003] about [New York Times columnist Nicholas] Kristof’s claim [that the Bush Administration used false intelligence to lead into the war in Iraq] and how information that some in the administration knew to be false had ended up in the President’s State of the Union address. I told him that it was possible that there had been some knowledge that the reports were not credible but that it might not have risen to our attention. I also reminded him that our entire case against Saddam did not hinge on a single statement in the President’s speech.”
– Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor, Page 222