An internal White House advisory board has determined that President Bush made a questionable claim when he talked up Saddam Hussein’s efforts to obtain nuclear materials in this year’s State of the Union address. This according to the Washington Post.

The Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board–chaired by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft–found there was no “deliberate effort to fabricate” claims that Saddam tried to buy uranium from Niger. Yet the board found that the White House was so anxious to “grab onto something affirmative” about Iraq’s WMD program that it disregarded warnings that the claim was questionable.