CIA Director George Tenet acknowledged at a closed-door hearing on the Bush administration’s use of now-discredited documents on Iraq’s pursuit of uranium that a White House official had insisted the unverified allegation be included in the president’s State of the Union address in January, a Democratic senator said Thursday. The president’s spokesman vigorously disputed that assertion. U.S. officials said, meanwhile, that top CIA officials did not receive the documents until after the president’s speech.
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