What happened to the FBI investigation of the Niger forgeries?

[JDPriestly]

Josh Marshall

The FBI's review of WMD forgeries looks like a sham

It’s been known since just before the outbreak of the war, almost two and a half years ago, that the prime “evidence” at the center of administration claims about an Iraq nuclear program was the work of forgers. This was announced by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the eve of the war, and in reaction Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called for an FBI investigation into the origins of the forgeries themselves.

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As last year’s Senate intel report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction states in a footnote at bottom of Page 57, it was because of this FBI investigation that the Intelligence Committee walled off everything about the documents prior to their arrival at the U.S. Embassy in October 2002. So everything about how those forgeries came into being and why they ended up in the hands of the U.S. government remained beyond the purview of the committee. Committee investigators simply didn’t look into it.

That might make sense if there were an active FBI investigation. But there’s every reason to think that the FBI’s investigation was a phantom probe from the start.

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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/28/02529/7445
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/JoshMarshall/072805.html