New York TimesThe Uranium FictionSat Jul 12 23:22:29 2003208.152.73.19 The Uranium Fiction New York Times | Editorial Saturday 12 July 2003 We're glad that someone in Washington has finally taken responsibility forletting President Bush make a false accusation about Saddam Hussein'snuclear weapons program in the State of the Union address last January,but the matter will not end there. George Tenet, the director of centralintelligence, stepped up to the issue yesterday when he said the C.I.A.had approved Mr. Bush's speech and failed to advise him to drop themistaken charge that Iraq had recently tried to import significantquantities of uranium from an African nation, later identified as Niger.Now the American people need to know how the accusation got into thespeech in the first place, and whether it was put there with an intent todeceive the nation. The White House has a lot of explaining to do. So far, the administration's handling of this important - and politicallyexplosive - issue has mostly involved a great deal of finger-pointinginstead of an exacting reconstruction of events and an acceptance of blameby all those responsible. Mr. Bush himself engaged in the free-for-allyesterday while traveling in Africa when he said his speech had been"cleared by the intelligence services." That led within a few hours to Mr.Tenet's mea culpa. It is clear, however, that much more went into this affair than thefailure of the C.I.A. to pounce on the offending 16 words in Mr. Bush'sspeech. A good deal of information already points to a willful effort bythe war camp in the administration to pump up an accusation that seemedshaky from the outset and that was pretty well discredited long before Mr.Bush stepped into the well of the House of Representatives last January.Doubts about the accusation were raised in March 2002 by Joseph Wilson4th, a former American diplomat, after he was dispatched to Niger by theC.I.A. to look into the issue. Mr. Wilson has said he is confident that his concerns were circulated notonly within the agency but also at the State Department and the office ofVice President Dick Cheney. Mr. Tenet, in his statement yesterday,confirmed that the Wilson findings had been given wide distribution,although he reported that Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and other high officialshad not been directly informed about them by the C.I.A. The uranium chargeshould never have found its way into Mr. Bush's speech. Determining how itgot there is essential to understanding whether the administration engagedin a deliberate effort to mislead the nation about the Iraqi threat. 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