A Firm Basis for Impeachment: "The buck stops with Bush and his national security advisor, who is charged with funneling intelligence data to the president. That included telling the president that the CIA's concerns were backed by the State Department's conclusion that "the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are highly dubious."
Rice has tried to fend off controversy by claiming ignorance. On 'Meet the Press' in June, Rice claimed, 'We did not know at the time ? no one knew at the time, in our circles ? maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery.' On Friday, Rice admitted that she had known the State Department intelligence unit 'was the one that within the overall intelligence estimate had objected to that sentence' "
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