[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON

  (Mr. SHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, Ambassador Joe Wilson's cover has been blown. 
He has proclaimed to be a truth-teller, but he has been thoroughly 
discredited. You may recall, Mr. Speaker, that Ambassador Wilson said 
President Bush was lying when in the State of the Union address he said 
the British Government learned that Saddam Hussein sought significant 
quantities of uranium from Africa. Last week's bipartisan Senate Select 
Intelligence Committee report concluded that it actually is Wilson who 
has been telling us lies.
  We now know for certain that Wilson was wrong and that Bush's 
statement was entirely accurate. In September 2003, an independent 
British parliamentary committee looked into the matter and determined 
that the claim made by the British intelligence was in fact reasonable.
  In recent days, the Financial Times has reported that illicit sales 
of uranium from Niger were indeed being negotiated with Iraq as well as 
four other states. According to the Financial Times, human and 
electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up 
repeated discussions of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger. One of 
the customers discussed by the traders was Iraq.
  There is more. The Senate report says fairly bluntly that Wilson lied 
to the media. The panel found that Wilson provided misleading 
information to The Washington Post last June, which has created more 
suspicion around him.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring these developments to my 
colleagues in the House because they will not read this in the New York 
Times.

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