Also The New Republic, "Revisiting Wilson"

"Both the national security adviser and the CIA director at the time (Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet, respectively) issued public apologies for the Niger claim, admitting it was unsubstantiated. And the most authoritative report on the matter comes from the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), which spent a year combing the Iraqi countryside for alleged weapons of mass destruction. Its conclusion: "ISG has not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad after 1991 or renewed indigenous production of such material."

How can the administration and its allies be so cavalier about the truth? Because that's the way they've operated all along. As numerous press accounts (including in these pages) have shown, when the intelligence bureaucracy questioned arguments that Saddam posed an imminent WMD threat, the White House intimidated would-be dissenters within the intelligence community: Dick Cheney paid personal visits to CIA headquarters at Langley, sending a message to analysts who might buck the party line, while Pentagon officials actually set up their own parallel intelligence office to get around CIA bureaucrats with the temerity to question inflated claims of Saddam's nuclear capability.

Of course, the skeptics turned out to be right; as even most supporters of the war (this magazine included) now acknowledge, the publicly stated rationale for war was false."