Rice subpoenaed in uranium claim

A House committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice Wednesday to find out what she knew about a claim in 2003 that Iraq tried to get uranium from Niger, according to cnn.com. The claim was one of Pres. Bush's reasons for going to war with Iraq.

Two months after the invasion, the Bush administration backed off that claim after former diplomat Joe Wilson said he had been sent to Niger to investigate that claim. Soon after, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame-Wilson, a CIA operative, was outed on NBC's "Meet the Press." It is thought the outing was retaliation against Wilson.

The committee's goal is to find out who knew what and when, to investigate whether or not the uranium claim was true (if not, it could be even worse for Bush's justification of the war).