Bogus Uranium Documents in Plame Case Still Radioactive

[struggle4progress]

CQ HOMELAND SECURITY – SpyTalk
March 23, 2007 – 7:23 p.m

By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor

... Inevitably, the names of Plame and Wilson will dissolve into footnotes. But decades from now history will remember “the Italian letter,” shorthand for the fabricated documents at the heart of the Plame affair ...

As it turned out, the sheaf of documents was the creation of “rogue” Italian military intelligence agents, according to stories so far ...

Eventually, top State Department intelligence and CIA officials recognized the documents were fraudulent, but — in the kindest possible interpretation — they underestimated the White House’s intent on using them ...

And Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., is still pursuing answers to the affair from Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who treated his 16 previous inquiries like flyers on her windshield when he was in the minority ...

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

[grasswire]

1. good for Jeff Stein

He's still out there raising hell.

[Tigress DEM]

2. I think it's the "people" we have to reach on this.

I keep explaining to friends I talk to about the "Niger Documents" as I usually refer to the actual forgeries were like a $20 bill with the wrong name for the Treasurer for the year it showed it was made.

A forgery expert said it was bogus and the administration handed it (ie the same fake $20 bill) over to Blair and got some idiot to say, "Looks good to me." Fine take it to YOUR bank and cash it.

We've got a solid half a million moving in the same direction on activism issues - take the GORE postcard drive or Conyers signatures to demand Bush explain himself over the DSM. We need to bring that number up even as we wage war on multiple fronts.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Nur-al Cubicle has the story....

http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/berlusconi-behind-fake-yellowcake.html

http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/yellowcake-dossier-not-work-of-cia.html

http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/nigergate-great-nuclear-centrifuge.html

A great read. Shows how a piece of scum rogue Italian agent tried to make a name for himself.

He should have been shut down and charged within weeks of creating this "document".

[bobthedrummer]

4. Mel Sembler was the GWB Italian Ambassador in that time frame

:puke: :argh:

Mel Sembler SourceWatch.org profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mel_Sembler

[bobthedrummer]

5. kick