Contradiction!

Meet the Press, 8 June 2003:

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: "The president quoted a British paper. 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 Air Force One, 11 July 2003:

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: "The CIA cleared it. There was even some discussion on that specific sentence, so that it reflected better what the CIA thought," Rice said. "Now I can tell you, if the CIA, the director of central intelligence, had said, 'Take this out of the speech,' it would have been gone without question."

ALSO: Henry Waxman's letter of 10 June asking Rice for clarification about the forged evidence.

posted by Quiddity at 7/13/2003 12:31:00 PM