59th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As the days count down toward the president’s State of the Union address, a lively morality play of Error and minimal Truth dukes it out behind the scenes, between the White House and what’s left of the domestic Intelligence Community.
January 12-20, 2003:

 
 

Jan. 12, 2003 – The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) in the State Department sends an ICE-mail to CIA, expressing concerns that the documents pertaining to the Iraq-Niger deal were forgeries. (Libby trial document DX64.7)

 
As noted before, the CIA ...   more »