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White House Quietly Admits Bush Lied About When He Learned That Iran Had Suspended Its Nuclear Program

Admission Was Reported by ABC News But Has Largely Been Ignored by Corporate Media

Posted By Jon Ponder On 6th December 2007 @ 09:52 In Iran, Accountability | 9 Comments

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review [1].

The White House has quietly admitted that George Bush lied to reporters at a news conference on Tuesday when he said he was not informed by intelligence officials that Iran's nuclear weapons program had been suspended in 2003.

On Tuesday, Bush denied he knew the program had been disbanded when he warned the American people in October that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons could unleash World War III. Now, as we reported last night [2] at Pensito Review, Bush press flack Dana Perino confirmed off-camera to reporters that, in fact, Bush learned about the suspension of Iran's weapons program in August.

According to ABC News' Martha Raddatz... [3]

The White House made a stunning admission Wednesday that appeared to suggest President Bush has directly contradicted himself about when he learned U.S. intelligence that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program...

After taking a reporters' question earlier today about exactly what the President was told, White House press secretary Dana Perino provided a response to reporters Wednesday night.

Perino stated Bush had been told in August that Iran suspended it's covert nuclear weapons program.

"In August, DNI Director McConnell advised President Bush that the intelligence community would not be able to meet a congressionally imposed deadline requiring a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran because new information had been obtained just as they were about to finalize the report," Perino wrote in an emailed response.

"He said that if the new information turns out to be true, what we thought we knew for sure is right. Iran does in fact have a covert nuclear weapons program, but it may be suspended," Perino's email said.

Perino also said McConnell told the President the new information might cause the intelligence community to change its assessment of Iran's covert nuclear program.

Of course, Perino's latest version of who-knew-what-and-when may well be yet another lie. New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh said earlier yesterday that Dick Cheney knew [4] about the Iranian program's suspension as late as last November, and that he had "kept his foot on the neck of that report" until last week.

The White House has apparently been successful in burying the news that Bush lied at the news conference on Tuesday about when he was informed about the suspension of the Iranian program --- and that, by extension both Bush and Cheney have been lying to the American public for months about the threat Iran poses to world peace.


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URLs in this post:
[1] Pensito Review: http://www.pensitoreview.com/
[2] reported last night: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/05/white-house-admits-bush-lied-about-iran-
biden-threatens-to-impeach-if-bush-acts/

[3] According to ABC News' Martha Raddatz...: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/white-house-bus.html
[4] Dick Cheney knew: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/05/cheney-lied-about-iran-nie/

 

 
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