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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 14, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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  • Making the Case, Unraveling the Case

    As President Bush prepares to deliver his fourth and final recent speech on the Iraq war, leaks to the press are raising questions about pre-war intelligence. Now a French spy service says it warned the administration in 2002 that claims about Iraq and uranium were bogus.

Polling Places

Tony Karon, World Editor at time.com
and
Bob Drogin, Washington correspondent for the LA Times focusing on Intelligence
- preview Bush's fourth and final in a series of speeches on Iraq, and discuss the ongoing intelligence debate

» Time Magazine
» "French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence" by Bob Drogin in the LA Times

Up in the Air

Patrick Smith, airline pilot, Salon.com’s air travel columnist and author, Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel (Riverhead Books 2004)
- tells us everything we want to know about airline travel.

» Ask the Pilot
» "Ask The Pilot" on Salon.com (subscription)

Live Event

President Bush speaks at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C., his fourth and final appearance in a series of speeches

» Text of the speech (whitehouse.gov)

"it is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong"

Holly Bailey, White House correspondent for Newsweek
- on President Bush's surprising admission of error on pre-war intelligence

» Newsweek

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Michael Moore on Brian's 20th Anniversary

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