"Plausible deniability" will soon be re-entering the lexicon.

[Brotherjohn]

With the coming indictments of Libby and Rove, the closer links to Cheney, and now the story out of Italy that the head of Italian Intelligence personally passed the forged Niger-uranium documents story to now National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, this is getting closer and closer to the president and vice-president.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_10_23.php

Now we are about to see the exploding story of a shadowy group of operatives, all apparently converging on Libby and Hadley (if not Cheney)... Ledeen, Franklin, Rhode... working outside the bounds of law to promote an idealogical agenda. And also working with a level of independence that separates them from the highest levels.

Sound familiar? (Oliver North, Iran-Contra, etc.)

Soon, the words "plausible deniability" will be back on everyone's lips.

ON EDIT:
A second point regarding Josh Marshall's post linked above. If memory serves me, Hadley was reported to have been in on CIA-WH discussions of what was to go into the 2003 State of the Union address regarding Iraq's alleged WMDs. Whether it was Hadley or not, some WH official allegedly told the CIA "Okay, we can't really claim this. What if we say "British intelligence has found...?"

Does anyone have the link to this? I believe it may have been a Wash Post story.

Anyway, say the Repubblica article is true. Hadley may have listened to Pollari, and then said "Hmmmn... no. Tell you what. Bring this to the British. Then we'll say THEY found it."