“[T]he Bush administration, desperately trying to find a way to include the Niger reference in Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address, finally found it by simply quoting and embracing a British intelligence report on September 24, 2002, that Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger, a report that the CIA warned the British should not be given credence. In closed-door testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in July of 2003, Alan Foley, a CIA expert on weapons of mass destruction, testified that Robert G. Joseph, a senior adviser to [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, faxed a draft of the president’s State of the Union speech with the Niger reference in it to the CIA days before the speech. Foley told Joseph that the Niger reference should be taken out. Joseph then suggested alternative language be used attributing the Niger reference not to U.S. intelligence but to the British report, and Foley assented.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Pages 128-129