Forged documents about Nigerian uranium? Bye bye Bush

[prescole]

The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.

This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the broader question about the way the Iraq war was justified by the Bush administration...

...NATO sources have confirmed to United Press International that Fitzgerald's team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on the forgeries from the Italian government.

Fitzgerald's team has been given the full, and as yet unpublished report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the affair, which started when an Italian journalist obtained documents that appeared to show officials of the government of Niger helping to supply the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein with Yellowcake uranium. This claim, which made its way into President Bush's State of the Union address in January, 2003, was based on falsified documents from Niger and was later withdrawn by the White House.

This opens the door to what has always been the most serious implication of the CIA leak case, that the Bush administration could face a brutally damaging and public inquiry into the case for war against Iraq being false or artificially exaggerated...

There can be few more serious charges against a government than going to war on false pretences, or having deliberately inflated or suppressed the evidence that justified the war.

[unhappycamper]

1. Link please?

[Old and In the Way]

3. Link here

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051023-104217-9679r

Talk about a mix of stupidity, arrogance, and hubris...these yahoo's out Plame's network as some kind of act of political revenge only to open the door that exposes their own culpability in the manufacturing of the Niger evidence. Caught up in their own Machiavellian web...

[knowbody0]

2. he scrambled the CIA

when he put porter goss in charge of them and the FBI, and during the toss, with all the pissed off egos he cooked the info. everything he's touched has been spoiled, but along the way fierce enemies are lined up ready to attack. it's gonna get good

[OrlandoGator]

4. Have you SEEN the scan of the forged Niger letter?

The Niger seal on the letterhead looks like it was drawn on in crayon.

[unhappycamper]

5. prescole:

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TIA

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