WASHINGTON, D.C: A Pentagon committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, advisedPresident Bush to include a reference in his January State of the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase500 tons of uranium from Niger to bolster the case for war in Iraq, despite the fact that the CIA warnedWolfowitz’s committee that the information was unreliable, according to a CIA intelligence official and fourmembers of the Senate’s intelligence committee who have been investigating the issue.