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Libby trial prosecutors reveal pre-war battle over Iraq WMDs

David Edwards
Published: Wednesday January 24, 2007

Prosecutors in the trial for former White House aide I. Lewis Libby revealed some details on the Bush Administration's "pre-war battle" over Iraq's WMDs, according to MSNBC.

Former Under-Secretary of State Marc Grossman testified that he received a request from Libby at the end of May 2003, asking for information about Ambassador Joseph Wilson's trip to Africa during which he found there was no evidence that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, MSNBC's David Shuster reported.

Grossman testified it was just two weeks later that he had a face-to-face meeting with Libby, then Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security, and told him, in so many words, "look, here's a report on Joe Wilson's trip and, by the way, we've learned that the ambassador's wife, Valerie Wilson, she is undercover at the CIA," Shuster continued.

In the pre-war arguments, many State Department workers had huge problems with the nuclear case that the Bush Administration had made against Iraq. That came up and was significant because at the time the Administration and former Secretary of State Colin Powell were putting up a united front, Shuster added.
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