Subpoena Time for Rice

The House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday to testify in May about what she knew about false intelligence linking Niger to Iraq’s supposed WMD program. Committee Chairman Henry Waxman said Americans were “misled” in the lead-up to the Iraq war, and that Rice was the key player in the Niger affair.

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