It's now been a week since Murray Waas and the National Journal published a piece seeming to detail that Bush was warned that the aluminum tubes-for-nukes story on Iraq was shaky, went ahead with it anyway, and then tried to cover that up. And still no coverage in the papers, which I still find perplexing.
The Prospect's Greg Sargent has some thoughts on the whole affair, plus a nice summary:
White House officials, including Bush himself, withheld critical information it had about doubts over supposed evidence of Saddam's nuke ambitions in order to better make the case for war. Then they subsequently discovered that hard evidence existed of that duplicity. Then, anxious that this evidence might surface before the 2004 reelection, they engaged in a relentless campaign to cover up what really happened during the Iraq run-up and to prevent an aggressive congressional investigation until after the election”
One note: The warning to Bush came via a one-page intel summary. If Waas has it, he should publish it. It would add confidence to the story and all-but guarantee coverage.
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