So now we have Stephen Hadley, Condi Rice’s number two, stepping forward to take the blame for 
not keeping the uranium line out of the State of the Union speech. This buck may eventually stop at the president’s desk, but it’s amazing how many stops it makes along the way, isn’t it?
An Acela Express it ain’t!
Presumably this renders ‘inoperative’ the earlier White House claim that the CIA didn’t warn them about their doubts on the uranium sale.
It would seem that Hadley’s ‘mea maxima culpa’ was triggered by leaks out of the CIA that they had even more evidence to prove that they sent the word to the White House plenty of times. It may also not have been entirely coincidental that the news came out on a day when the administration was celebrating a very real victory in having tracked down Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay.
For what it’s worth I think the chain here leads not so much to President Bush as to Vice President Cheney.
