[Shermy]

I read a lot of the Senate's intelligence report.

Unfortunately much is blacked out.

Fascinating. Off the bat it starts, surprisingly, on Joseph Wilson and Niger.

All the stuff on the sources of the British intelligence is blacked out.

The bio-war stuff is interesting too... much blacked out. But generally the slant is how the CIA reported it, not making tabsolute true or false findings.

[Khan Noonian Singh]

<<< Who produced the fake Niger papers? There is nothing approaching a consensus on this question within the intelligence community. There has been published speculation about the intelligence services of several different countries. One theory, favored by some journalists in Rome, is that sismi produced the false documents and passed them to Panorama for publication.

Another explanation was provided by a former senior C.I.A. officer. He had begun talking to me about the Niger papers in March, when I first wrote about the forgery, and said, “Somebody deliberately let something false get in there.” He became more forthcoming in subsequent months, eventually saying that a small group of disgruntled retired C.I.A. clandestine operators had banded together in the late summer of last year and drafted the fraudulent documents themselves. >>>

Seymour Hersh
The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/031027fa_fact