“A column written by Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador to Gabon, was…published on Sunday, July 6 [2003], in The New York Times. Wilson had been sent by the CIA, at the behest of [Vice President Dick] Cheney, in February 2002, to investigate claims that Hussein was attempting to buy ‘yellowcake’ uranium from the African nation of Niger in order to support a nuclear weapons building program. He unleashed a storm with his 1,452 words, which started, ‘Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq? Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.’ ”
– Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, Page 243