98^th in blog series on the administration push to war. As allegations that Bush’s Niger story was bogus spread throughout the news media, the White House is forced into repeated denials and evasions. The implosion of the Niger uranium story casts reasonable doubt on the larger administration brief for invasion.
July 15-21, 2003:

July 15, 2003 – Scott McClellan holds his first press briefing as White House Press Secretary. McClellan is grilled over Niger uranium:

“Q Scott, on this Iraq-Niger situation, why is it that the President made the comment yesterday that doubts were ...   more »