This is the whole thing: Each one of us has a different relationship with our sources.

Are you kidding? I certainly would have remembered that.

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official.

It's almost an umbilical cord. And that's helped strengthen what the agency's done.

I am prepared to answer questions identifying the source who released me from my pledge of confidentiality.