Rice Resists Niger Claim Testimony to House Panel

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Rice Resists Testimony to House Panel on Niger Claim

By Janine Zacharia

Bloomberg

Tuesday 17 April 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is resisting a U.S. House panel's demand that she testify tomorrow on why President George W. Bush said in a 2003 speech that Iraq sought uranium from Africa.

Rice "has spoken publicly and in detail on this issue on more than one occasion," Jeffrey Bergner, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, wrote today in a letter to Democratic Representative Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "We believe the important questions about this matter have been answered."

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