Spokesperson says US did not fabricate evidence about WMDs
22 June +3:58 GMT
CNN -- After six weeks of stonewalling, the White House has issued an official response to the documents known as the Downing Street Memo. This series of communiques, leaked from the British Foreign Office, suggest that the Bush Administration falsified evidence of WMDs as a pretext for the war in Iraq.
At a press conference in the White House briefing room, press secretary Scott McClellan issued the following statement:
"Contrary to what has been stated in the so-called `Downing Street Memos,' the Bush Adminstration did not fabricate evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction prior to waging war on Iraq. We truly believed, and some in the adminstration continue to believe, that Saddam possessed chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons that posed a grave danger to our country.
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