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Wilson's official role ended when he returned from Niger in March. The CIA didn't get the Italian forgeries until October. Wilson had no access to them. He either was making up what he told Kristof and Pincus, or he had received an unauthorized leak of classified information.

Or, Knowing that the Bush administration was onto them, the Nigerien officials - along with the French-controlled mining consortium that oversees ALL uranium in Niger - and Wilson cooked up a plan to create forged documents and "leak" them to the CIA via an Italian journalist in the pay of the French.

Aside from the obvious fact that Joseph Wilson couldn't know signatures, times and dates were incorrect on forged documents he never saw, why would Nigerien officials be so stupid as to put an ILLEGAL uranium transaction on paper? That's like saying the CIA intended Joseph Wilson to prove Niger was selling uranium to Iraq merely by asking them.

I'm thinking we'll find that a small number of Clinton holdovers manipulated intelligence in order to embarrass the President and Valerie Plame will be among them.