“On July 10 [2003], when asked by Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor at an Armed Services Committee hearing when he had learned that the reports of Iraq seeking uranium from Africa ‘were bogus,’ [Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld responded, ‘Oh, within recent days, since the information started becoming available.’ ([Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed] ElBaradei’s public branding of the Iraq-Niger documents as fakes had been more than four months earlier.)”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 99