On July 10, 2003, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the Niger/Iraq yellowcake incident: ” ‘I can tell you, if the Director of Central Intelligence [George Tenet] had said, ‘Take this out of the [2003 State of the Union] speech,’ it would have been gone, without question. …It would not have been in the speech.’ ”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 268