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To: Ilaine who wrote (169762)	6/13/2006 5:54:58 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793866

That's what I mean by cherry-picking. Believing what you want to believe and rejecting facts that are inconvenient. CB, how is that any different than you arguing a case before the bench when you're not sure of the outcome? You will use all means you deem necessary to prove your point. Isn't that human nature? Bush and company did exactly this.

To: Ilaine who wrote (169762)	6/13/2006 6:28:09 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793866

In a word, they weren't In a word, you need to reread that report, because once again it does not state what you assert. It says the "important fact" gleaned from Wilson's trip was the piece of info that Iraq was shopping in Niger, but it "added nothing" to the pie, and CIA was concentrating on the aluminum tubes, so it wasn't included in the reports. You keep conflating sale with shopping. CIA doubted that Iraq actually completed a contract of sale, not that they were there shopping. That is plain from the text. The forgery cropped up in October 2002, after all this analysis was concluded. So your continued use of the forgeries as the source of the wrong intelligence is, well, wrong. Derek

To: Ilaine who wrote (169762)	6/13/2006 11:29:17 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

re:"Q - Why else would they be shopping for yellowcake? A - In a word they weren't" The beauty of government reports, is that there is something for everyone. page 43 of the report you linked - "Mayaki (Nigerien Prime Minister) said, however, that in June 1999, (blanked out) businesman, approached him and insisted that Mayaki meet with an Iraqi Delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq. The intelligence report said that Mayaki intrepreted "expanding commercial relations" to mean that the delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales <note: uranium is by far the bulk of Nigerien "commercial" exports>. The intelligence report also said that "although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to the UN sanctions on Iraq."