Following up on this news from yesterday…

Here are a couple of clips related to the recently revealed information that Bush knew of the NIE report that said Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 months before he warned America of the threat of World War III should Iran's weapons program not be halted.

The first is Bush's press conference yesterday, and the second is John Edwards' appearance on the Today show.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo makes a good point: “If you look closely at what President Bush said this morning about the Iran intelligence, his dodge about what he knew and when is actually worse than the charge he was trying to deny. The essence of what President Bush was saying was that whatever chatter he may have heard last summer, he didn't hear the key details until this week. If you take at face value what the president is saying, his spy chief, Mike McConnell, comes in to the president and says, ‘Mr. President, we've got some important new information on the Iran nuclear front.' And the president apparently says, okay. And then he doesn't ask him what the information was.”

Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee says, “Huh?”

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