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Seymour Hersh: Bush Told Olmert of NIE Two Days Before He Was Allegedly First Briefed on It [VIDEO]
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Yesterday, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters that President Bush was first briefed on the National Intelligence Estimate's conclusions on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
But today in an interview with CNN, Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker's Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, revealed that Bush actually knew about the NIE at least two days earlier and had a "private discussion" about it with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert before the Middle East peace summit in Annapolis, MD, last week:
Israel objects to this report. I'm told that Olmert had a private discussion with Bush about it during Annapolis -- before Annapolis. Bush briefed him about it. The Israelis were very upset about the report. They think we're naive, they don't think we get it right. And so they have a different point of view.Watch the video to your right.
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