June 8, 2003
U.S. and British intelligence experts conclude that the two trailers found in northern Iraq — which the Bush administration continues to insist are mobile biological weapon factories — are part of a mobile system to produce hydrogen for weather balloons.
July 7, 2003
In a statement, the White House admits that the claim by President Bush in his State of the Union address that Iraq had attempted to obtain uranium from Africa was based on forged documents: "We now know that documents alleging a transaction between Iraq and Niger had been forged…. The other reporting that suggested Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Africa is not detailed or specific enough for us to be certain that such attempts were in fact made."
July 14, 2003
Journalist Robert Novak publishes an article in which he discloses that Valerie Plame, the wife of retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, is a CIA "operative."
July 24, 2003
The independent 9/11 commission releases the declassified portion of an 800-page report on findings stemming from its investigation of the September 11 attacks. Commissioner Max Cleland tells United Press International that the White House had delayed the publishing of the report for fear that it might undermine its case for war: "The reason this report was delayed for so long — deliberately opposed at first, then slow-walked after it was created — is that the administration wanted to get the war in Iraq in and over ... before (it) came out."
August 19, 2003
A truck bomb at the U.N. Headquarters in Baghdad kills the U.N. Special Representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 others.
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