The controversial passage citing a British intelligence report "should have been taken out of the State of the Union," -Stephen] Hadley said. He said he was taking responsibility on behalf of the White House staff just as Tenet had done for the CIA.
Hadley is the top aide to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
"There were a number of people who could have raised a hand" to have the passage removed from the draft of Bush's Jan. 28 address, Hadley said. "And no one raised a hand."
And apparently one of those unraised hands was Hadley's boss, Condi.
Yawn. As Atrios has already pointed out Bush went over his speech "word by word and line by line". The buck stops where, again?