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To: LindyBill who wrote (143926)10/28/2005 3:18:54 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 793731
 
The report also said Wilson lied when he told The Washington Post he knew the Niger intelligence had been based on forged documents. The CIA didn't obtain the document said to be a forgery until a full eight months after Wilson's return from Niger.

This issue has been successfully clouded by the media (displaying their usual right-wing bias). In fact, the forged documents were around long before February 2002.

<<< ... The US, in turn, was basing most, though not all, of its suspicions on these reports it got from this unnamed foreign intelligence agency that provided an initial report to the US shortly after 9/11 and then another with more detail in February 2002, as the SSCI report states. That foreign government was Italy. And the information they provided also stemmed from the same documents ... >>>

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What happened is that a group of nefarious Neocons created this bogus evidence that Saddam tried to buy Uranium from Niger, and then they spread the evidence around in various ways. In the end, a group of naive intelligence officials in various countries thought they were making independent conclusions on independent data points. In fact, it was all the same bogus report at the bottom of everything.

Tom
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