CQ: Bogus Uranium Documents in Plame Case Still Radioactive

[Buck Turgidson]

And ironically, the media frenzy surrounding Plame’s cinematic March 16 testimony at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee served to obscure, perhaps even trivialize, the events that brought her there.

The main issue — that the White House used phony intelligence reports to stampede a wavering Congress into an unprovoked, unprecedented and ultimately tragic invasion of Iraq — got lost somewhere.

A ranking counterterrorism veteran scoffed at the idea that the White House was victimized by the document scam, as Rice has maintained.

“We were manipulated by a foreign intelligence service? Gimme a break,” he said.

“The documents were fabricated, in my opinion, by our Casa Blanca , using the Italians as a conduit,” he said. And the Bush Justice Department, he said, put what should have been a major criminal investigation into the hands of inexperienced counterintelligence agents who couldn’t even manage to find the mysterious European spy at the heart of the affair.

http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002477299.html

[whistle]

1. Two of the culprits it appears are Silvio Berlusconi and JosÈ Maria Aznar

....Italian and Spanish governmental leaders and both rabid fascists. They both have direct connections to George Dubya and Tony Blair and are tied to the Niger yellow-cake memo forgeries.