5 years since Joe Wilson’s op-ed and the only one to have done time was a journalist. Strangely, it wasn’t Bob Novak.
From Wilson’s July 6, 2003 NYT op-ed:
Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq? Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
Wilson wrote the above only after hearing George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address which spouted the now infamous 16 words:
The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Original Post from Editor & Publisher’s Greg Mitchell, 6 July 2008. Also see FactCheck.org post from 2004.
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