{"id":4183,"date":"2007-12-06T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2017-05-21T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:47:48","slug":"white-house-and-cia-contradict-bushs-iran-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/white-house-and-cia-contradict-bushs-iran-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"White House and CIA Contradict Bush&#8217;s Iran Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/untitled3.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/untitled3.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Thomas B. Edsall and Max Follmer, Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>Four former CIA officials who provided intelligence information to past presidents described as preposterous President Bush&#8217;s claim that he was unaware until very recently that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable,&#8221; said Melvin Goodman, who worked for the CIA from 1966 to 1990 and now is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/12\/05\/former-cia-officials-bus_n_75518.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Bush was told in August that Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program &#8220;may be suspended,&#8221; the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The new account from Perino seems to contradict the president&#8217;s version of his August conversation with McConnell and raised new questions about why <a class=\"cnnInlineTopic\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130801061348\/http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/george_w_bush\/\">Bush<\/a> continued to warn the American public about a threat from Iran two months after being told a new assessment was in the works.<\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude-->\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/12\/05\/bush.iran\/index.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas B. 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