Event
Bush speech in Cincinnati, 7 October 2002
Speech by President Bush on Iraq; a line on uranium from Africa was taken out of its draft after the CIA objected.
- Dates
- 7 Oct 2002
Connections 3
involved
- George W. Bush the speaker Primary record 1
- George Tenet told the Deputy National Security Advisor the "President should not be a fact witness on this issue" Primary record 1
appears in
- Senate report on prewar intelligence assessments on Iraq (2004) Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 7 Oct 2002 Bush speech in Cincinnati, 7 October 2002
Proof 1 source
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Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (Senate Report 108-301, 9 July 2004), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 Jul 2004.
Primary record
The NSC then removed the uranium reference from the draft of the speech.
the DCI testified before the SSCI that he told the Deputy National Security Advisor that the "President should not be a fact witness on this issue," because his analysts had told him the "reporting was weak."
Later that day, the NSC staff prepared draft seven of the Cincinnati speech
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