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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  ADVISORY BOARD FAULTS WHITE HOUSE ON IRAQ NUKE CLAIM Tue Dec 23 2003 21:18:19 ET The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has concluded that the White House made a questionable claim in January's State of the Union address about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain nuclear materials because of its desperation to show that Saddam had an active program to develop nuclear weapons, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to report in a Page One Exclusive on Wednesday. Newspaper sources tell DRUDGE, the POST will splash: After reviewing the matter for several months, the intelligence board _ chaired by former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft _ has determined that there was "no deliberate effort to fabricate" a story, the source said. Instead, the source said, the board believes the White House was so anxious "to grab onto something affirmative" about Saddam's nuclear ambitions that it disregarded warnings from the intelligence community that the claim was questionable. Developing... |
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