the Navy's report on Niger uranium in Benin.
What's that about?
Want to put this Link here before I lose track of it:
Report on Prewar Iraq Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
A PDF document , 500 + pages
See pages 59 and 68, right after this comment:
On November 22, 2002, during a meeting with State Department officials, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Nonproliferation said that France had information on an Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger. He said athat no uranium had been shipped, but France believed the reporting was true that Iraq had made a procurement attempt for uranium from Niger.
There was a HUMINT report given to the Navy by an individual who said uranium destined for Iraq was stored in a warehouse in Benin. The Navy passed on the intel- including contact info for the source to the CIA. But the CiA didn't bother to look into it according to the Senate investigation. The source wasn't contacted. It may be bogus but if it wasn't even looked into, who can tell.
APRIL 26, 2002 : (CIA INSPECTOR GENERAL BRITT SNIDER RESIGNS) Washington: A congressional investigation of the intelligence failures surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been thrown off course by the sudden resignation of a former CIA official hired to lead the inquiry but criticized for being too cozy with his former employer. L. Britt Snider, former inspector general at the CIA, resigned under pressure Friday, less than three months into a high-stakes probe designed to determine why the nation's spy agencies failed to pick up any warning of the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. ...But congressional sources confirmed that Snider was forced out amid growing concerns over his management of the investigation, ranging from the tone of his leadership to his decisions on personnel. Several sources said Snider's resignation was sparked by troubling questions that surfaced in recent weeks about whether one or more of his hires lacked proper security clearances to view classified material. ... Several GOP members, including Kyl and Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate committee, expressed doubts about Snider because of his close ties to CIA Director George J. Tenet. Snider had served as a special counsel to Tenet at the CIA, and was general counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee when Tenet was its staff director in the late 1980s and early 1990s. http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:dOSoOu8a48AC:www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3164021.htm+members+2002+%22Senate+intelligence%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8