<< GX41201 >> GOVERNMENT • EXHIBIT 14121 DOWD: National House of Waffles (NYrimes) (ID) By MAUREEN DOWD The New York Times, July 13, 2003 WASHINGTON V en t e president attributed the information about iraq trying to get Niger yeilowcake to British intelligence, it was a Clintonian bit of flim-flam. Americans did not know what top Bush officials knew: that this “evidence” could not be attributed to American intelligence because the C.I.A. had already debunked it. —. A-~,f~wz. - ~ ~,t~(IIJ,9, ,~ Ms. Rice did not throw out the line, even though the C.I.A. had warned her office that it was sketchy. Clearly, a higher oower wanted it in. I And that had to be f)ick Cheney’s ojfjce. Joseph Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Gabon, said he was I asked to go to Niger to ans~r some questions from the vice president’s office about that episode and reported back that it was highly doubtful. / , — 7 / ~‘~‘~“ 7~’fY ) / ,(~,.49L <“ (~~L’a~Ac- II ,4~-( - I 2 —. — I ~ ~ 000841 ~~‘/‘3: .> 000842 LLOO 1-00244