http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-oversight-panel-may-look-past-rice-tenet-in-inquiry-into-uranium-2007-04-30.htmlHouse oversight panel may look past Rice, Tenet in inquiry into uranium
By Helen Fessenden and Jackie Kucinich
May 01, 2007
Following a subpoena to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a letter to former CIA Director George Tenet last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee may cast an even wider net in its probe into why the administration made false pre-war claims that Iraq was seeking to acquire uranium from Niger.
The panel’s chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), said last Thursday that the panel had not yet made a decision on how many more individuals it would contact, but indicated that he may consider it.
“We’ll take this one step at a time, and we’ll see,” he said. “I still think Rice will come in the end, but so far we’ve just gotten stonewalled.”
Regarding other names, a Democratic committee aide said “nothing is ruled out,” but added that “we’re just very early in the process.”
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