aluminum tubes

Murray Waas has exposed a new hole in the pre-war intelligence in his latest article.

The first report, delivered to Bush in early October 2002, was a one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate that discussed whether Saddam's procurement of high-strength aluminum tubes was for the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon.

Among other things, the report stated that the Energy Department and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research believed that the tubes were "intended for conventional weapons," a view disagreeing with that of other intelligence agencies, including the CIA, which believed that the tubes were intended for a nuclear bomb.  

First we find out that the "Mushroom cloud" story told on MTP by Cheney was actually a manufactured story by the administration. Now we find out that Bush and Cheney knew the aluminum tubes were not for nuclear weapons. The pile of lies by the administration is piling up quick and something needs to be done now.

One question that has haunted people following the Valerie Plame leak case
has been "Why was Judith Miller jailed if she did not write an article?" Well
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Raw Story's explosive new report sheds some light on that very question.

The group relied heavily on New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who,
after meeting with several of the organization’s members in August 2002,
wrote an explosive story that many critics of the war believe laid the
groundwork for military action against Iraq.

On Sunday, Sept. 8, 2002, Miller wrote a story for the Times quoting
anonymous officials who said aluminum tubes found in Iraq were to be used as
centrifuges. Her report said the "diameter, thickness and other technical
specifications" of the tubes -- precisely the grounds for skepticism among
nuclear enrichment experts -- showed that they were "intended as components
of centrifuges."

She closed her piece by quoting then-National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice who said the United States would not sit by and wait to
find a smoking gun to prove its case, possibly in the form of a “a mushroom
cloud." After Miller’s piece was published, administration officials pursued
their case on Sunday talk shows using Miller’s piece as evidence that Iraq
was pursuing a nuclear bomb, even though those officials were the ones who
supplied Miller with the story and were quoted anonymously.