61st in continuing blog series on the administration campaign for war. The ill-fated countdown to the State of the Union address, with its wrong “sixteen words,” winds to its prearranged end.
January 24-28, 2003:

 
 

Jan. 24, 2003 – Upon a request from Steve Hadley, Deputy National Security Director, at NSC about WMDs, the CIA “faxed a packet of background information to the NSC,” including the uranium item. (Libby trial document DX18)

 

Same day -- The DIA provides a background paper on the Niger item to the Office of the Secretary of Defense/International Security Affairs, without ...   more »