Last week, the White House conceded that President Bush had been informed in August that Iran’s nuclear weapons program “may be suspended,” despite his earlier claim that he didn’t have “the information” until November. On the Chris Matthews Show this weekend, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius claimed that Bush lying about the National Intelligence Estimate was “a non-story.” Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/12/IgnatiusNonStory.320.240.flv]
Greg Sargent writes: “It seems like a story that the same President who misled the nation into a war once already by hyping a non-threat was again caught dissembling on what he knew and when about another nuke threat.”
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