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I have tons of stuff on this subject as well, but to be honest, I'm tired of repeating them. Two years ago I spent months digging up stuff on Joe Wilson and concluded he was a fraud and that the forged document in Powell's report was a big deal and I pointed to a statement made by Jack Straw of Great Britain, when he said in a Press Conference that "Because of reasons discussed in our Classified meeting, we cannot share our Intelligence with the U.S. That was shortly after Powell submitted his report to the U.N. and the IAEA Chief (Alberdai sp?) immediately discredited Powell.s report by pointing at the KNOWN forged document. I believe this was because WE told the Brits that we had a MOLE in our Intelligence Community and we cat off all communications

Text of CIA Director George Tenet's statement

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CIA's counter-proliferation experts, on their own initiative, asked an individual with ties to the region to make a visit to see what he could learn. He reported back to us that one of the former Nigerien (sic) officials he met stated that he was unaware of any contract being signed between Niger and rogue states for the sale of uranium during his tenure in office. The same former official also said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger. The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales. The former officials also offered details regarding Niger's processes for monitoring and transporting uranium that suggested it would be very unlikely that material could be illicitly diverted. There was no mention in the report of forged documents -- or any suggestion of the existence of documents at all.

Because this report, in our view, did not resolve whether Iraq was or was not seeking uranium from abroad, it was given a normal and wide distribution, but we did not brief it to the President, Vice-President or other senior Administration officials. We also had to consider that the former Nigerien officials knew that what they were saying would reach the U.S. government and that this might have influenced what they said.

Where is Hannity? Do you have more on this?

That was shortly after Powell submitted his report to the U.N. and the IAEA Chief (Alberdai sp?) immediately discredited Powell.s report by pointing at the KNOWN forged document. I believe this was because WE told the Brits that we had a MOLE in our Intelligence Community and we cat off all communications