[Khan Noonian Singh]

"Tru, 1 was meant to discourage investigation of the domestic angle, 2 was meant to discourage investigation of the foreign angle."

<< Are you saying that 1 and 2 are two sides of the same coin? It's very hard to believe that there's any sort of connection between Joe Wilson and Steven Hatfill. But I'm not sure if that's what you meant. >>

1 and 2 are two legs on the same stool but Wilson isn't the person at to look. Who forged the Niger uranium document? That is who to look at. And Terrance Wilkinson.

Was there also not a Hatfill forgery I think? And also debunked?

Similar methodology. Similar results.

[apokatastasis]

The journalist Laura Rozen is trying to make sense of the African-uranium issue. (Nothing about Terrance Wilkinson, though... Mostly, she's sorting out what the various intelligence agencies have said to the investigative commissions about the nature of their sources.)

My pet theory is that the Libyan nuclear program was a sting, aimed mainly at Iraq, and that the back-and-forth on Iraq, Niger, and African uranium emerged from the attempt to keep this hidden. As for Hatfill and the anthrax, I generally accept the old 'Great Satan' theory that Hatfill is just a lightning rod, put in place so that the national-security strategists could decide what to do about the anthrax threat in secret.