“Even [Secretary of State Colin] Powell’s own intelligence agency at State, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), thought the Italian intelligence report [on Saddam buying yellowcake from Niger] was junk and sent him a memo saying so.” In a July 13, 2003, article in Time, State Department intelligence official Greg Thielmann said: ” ‘A whole lot of things told us that the report was bogus. …This wasn’t highly contested.’ ”
– James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Page 305