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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

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  1. 2003-07-08 July 8, 2003 and After: White House Attacks Credibility of Wilson Report
  2. 2003-07-08 July 8, 2003: Libby Meets with Cheney’s Chief Lawyer Immediately after Meeting with Reporter
  3. 2003-07-08 8:30 a.m. July 8, 2003: Libby Again Tells New York Times Reporter that Plame Wilson Is CIA Officer
  4. 2003-07-08 July 8-10, 2003: Novak Reveals Valerie Plame Wilson Is a CIA Employee in Casual Conversation
  5. 2003-07-08 July 8, 2003: Press Reports Claim that Cheney Did Not Send Wilson to Niger
  6. 2003-07-08 July 8, 2003: Deputy Secretary of State Discusses Plame Wilson’s CIA Status with Columnist
  7. 2003-07-08 July 8, 2003: White House Admits Error over Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim
  8. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: ’Jersey Girls’ Lambast Zelikow over Author’s Testimony Linking 9/11 to Iraqi Government
  9. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: Tenet Unhappy with Possible White House Leaks Blaming CIA for Intelligence Failures
  10. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: Novak Discusses Wilson Trip to Niger with Libby
  11. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: CIA Expert on Iraq Discredits Theory of Connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  12. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: Bush Justifies Iraq Occupation in Light of White House Admission of ‘Error’; Makes Subtle Rhetorical Shift
  13. 2003-07-09 July 9, 2003: Rumsfeld Gives Other Reason for Iraq Invasion to Senate Committee
  14. 2003-07-10 On or Around July 10, 2003: Reporter to Wilson: White House Is ‘Coming after You’
  15. 2003-07-10 July 10, 2003: Cheney Aide: Wilson a ‘Snake,’ Bush Must Declassify Information to Discredit Him
  16. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: White House Backs Away from Admission of Error; Says Admission ‘Biggest Mistake Administration Had Made’
  17. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: President Bush Blames CIA Director Tenet for Niger Forgery Mention in State of the Union Speech
  18. 2003-07-11 (July 11, 2003): White House Chief of Staff Directs Response to Iraq-Niger Uranium Controversy
  19. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Cheney Rejects Draft Statement by Tenet as ‘Unacceptable’
  20. 2003-07-11 11:07 a.m. July 11, 2003: Time Reporter Discusses Rove Conversation with Editors
  21. 2003-07-11 12:45 p.m. July 11, 2003: Time Reporter E-Mails Cheney’s Communications Director with Questions concerning Iraq-Niger Claims
  22. 2003-07-11 After 1:00 p.m. July 11, 2003: Time Reporters Agree to Report on Plame Wilson Leak
  23. 2003-07-11 8:00 a.m. July 11, 2003: Press Secretary Tells Two Reporters of Plame Wilson’s CIA Identity
  24. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: White House Press Secretary Learns of Plame Wilson’s Identity from Colleague
  25. 2003-07-11 (July 11, 2003): CIA Spokesman Warns Novak Not to ‘Out’ Plame Wilson
  26. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003 and After: Author: Mainstream Media Follows White House Storyline on Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim
  27. 2003-07-11 (July 11, 2003): Cheney Strategizes Possible Leak of NIE Information to Press
  28. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Conservative Columnist Asserts Cheney Sent Wilson to Niger
  29. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Novak Column Exposing Plame Wilson Possibly Becomes Available on AP Wire
  30. 2003-07-11 4:00 p.m. July 11, 2003: Novak Sends Plame Wilson Column to Conservative Lobbyist, Who Faxes Copy to Rove
  31. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003 and After: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Calls for Investigation into Iraq-Niger Forgeries; Wants Investigation Limited to CIA
  32. 2003-07-11 After 11:07 a.m. July 11, 2003: Rove Alerts Deputy National Security Adviser of Reporter Questioning Iraq-Niger Claims
  33. 2003-07-11 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2003: Rove Attempts to Turn Iraq-Niger Story against CIA, White House Critic; Outs CIA’s Plame Wilson to Time Reporter
  34. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: White House Media Officials Urge Reporters to Look into Origins of Wilson Niger Trip
  35. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Wilson Believes CIA Admission Will End His Press Notoriety
  36. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Rice Claims Neither Bush, Cheney, Nor Herself Were Informed of Dissents Regarding Iraq’s Aluminum Tubes
  37. 2003-07-11 July 11, 2003: Rice Insists Yellowcake Claims Reasonable
  38. 2003-07-11 3:09 p.m. July 11, 2003: CIA Officially Retracts Uranium-from-Africa Claim
  39. 2003-07-12 July 12, 2003: Cheney Tells Libby to Use Classified Information to Discredit Wilson
  40. 2003-07-12 7:00 a.m. July 12, 2003: Cheney Receives Report on Wilson Trip to Niger
  41. 2003-07-12 July 12, 2003: Cheney, Two Aides Discuss Rebutting, Discrediting Wilson
  42. 2003-07-12 3:20 a.m. July 12, 2003: Fleischer Implies that Wilson Report Provides Evidence of Iraq-Niger Uranium Purchase
  43. 2003-07-12 2:24 p.m. July 12, 2003: Libby Confirms Plame Wilson’s CIA Status to Time Reporter
  44. 2003-07-12 July 12, 2003: Libby Speaks to Washington Post Reporter; May ‘Out’ Plame Wilson
  45. 2003-07-12 Late Afternoon, July 12, 2003: New York Times Reporter Told of Plame Wilson’s Identity for Third Time
  46. 2003-07-12 1:26 p.m. July 12, 2003: White House Press Secretary Reveals Plame Wilson’s CIA Identity to Post Reporter
  47. 2003-07-13 July 13, 2003: New York Times Columnist Lambasts Bush’s Lack of Transparency over Iraq Admissions
  48. 2003-07-13 July 13, 2003: Condoleeza Rice Again Blames CIA for Uranium-from-Africa Claim
  49. 2003-07-14 July 14, 2003: Cheney Asks CIA Briefer about Novak Article
  50. 2003-07-14 July 14, 2003: White House Press Secretary: No One Can Say Whether Iraq May Have Sought Uranium in Africa