Thanks for posting for others' info.
And your analysis:
The docs were not planted by someone who wanted to support the war, they were planted by someone who wanted to undermine the basis for war. These are the same forged docs that Wilson claimed to have knowledge of...before they were even in CIA possession...a claim he later retracted and said he must have "misspoke".
Is spot on.
It's not a coincidence CBS had this in its "bring down Bush" packet of stories in the weeks before the election. Their angle was going to be how the WH had been duped by forgeries. The truth was as soon as CIA headquarters (stateside) got them here in February 2003---after the SOTU---they quickly raised questions about their authenticity and turned over to the IAEA. In the wake of CBS themselves being taken in by forgeries they realized that angle wasn't going to play as well as originally planned so it was scrapped.
In the Senate Intelligence Committee report mentions that the FBI was conducting an investigation into foriegn government manipulation in this matter. Senator Rockefeller specifically asked that the matter not be discussed, therefore none of this was included in the report.
Does anybody know the status of the investigation?
Seems to me the dems managed to sweep it under the rug for a while.