CIA Versus White House
The CIA has requested that the Justice Department investigate a possible leak in the White House that revealed the name of an agent in a sensitive position, and may have compromised numerous CIA field officers and assets, possibly endangering some of them. Former acting ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson was sent to Niger in 2002 to investigate whether or not Saddam Hussein was trying to buy enriched uranium there.
Ambassador Wilson reported that the information was not credible, but it nevertheless appeared in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech. CIA Director George Tenet accepted responsibility for the information’s presence there when it was revealed that it was not true.The White House later blamed British intelligence for the false information.
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