Today's MSM Lie

By Matt for the TIB Network:

From the WMD Mailbag and the Boston Globe:

The man who insisted that President Bush make the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa is poised to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea, according to administration officials.

Robert G. Joseph, a special assistant for national security to President Bush until a few months ago, is on the short list to become undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the nation's senior diplomat in charge of negotiating arms control treaties, said the officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named.
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White House and intelligence officials have identified him as the official who included the uranium claim in the president's 2003 State of the Union address, despite strong CIA objections. Joseph has said he believed the CIA's disagreement was over the sourcing of the assertion, not whether the claim was accurate, the White House said about six months after the speech. But the apparent willingness of the administration to consider promoting someone who was involved in one of its biggest embarrassments drew immediate fire from critics.

I'll gently remind the Boston Globe that British Intelligence STILL believes Saddam tried to acquire uranium yellowcake from Africa. I'll aslo remind the Boston Globe that this had been looked into by Lord Hutton and either David Kay or Charles Duelfer and the claim ws found to be accurate.

Here's my favorite bit...

"He should have been fired or reprimanded," said Joseph Cirincione, a senior arms-proliferation specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "We see instead that he could be given the key position in the Department of State for all treaty and nonproliferation matters."

Oh yes, gather around the fire my friends for a rousing rendition of Kumbaya... He should be fired? For being right? Hmm...no wonder Americans don't trust liberals with national security.

Islamofascism Delenda Est!