Bush at bay

UPI ^ | Octo 24 05 | Martin Walker

[zeestephen]

Re: ".....the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation....."

It took UPI just one day to pick up on the journalistic fraud that the Associated Press started on Sunday.

The info that Iraq might be trying to purchase yellow cake uranium from Niger came from British Intelligence, NOT from the forged document.

Both Tony Blair and the British Intelligence chief stated publicly, AFTER Bush's speech to Congress, that their information on Iraq and Niger was accurate and had NOTHING to do with the forged document.

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Heard on Rush earlier today that he didn't believe that either Plame or Wilson have met with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald during his investigation. Can anyone confirm this?

[WhiteGuy]

8657 309?

[fabriclady]

I'll huff and I'll puff til I blow your house in..........or
give the liberals something to howl about.

RUBBISH!

[MEGoody]

The Docs. ARE a big deal if you are trying to take down a sitting President during wartime, and you are getting the help of foreign Nationals to do it.

Maybe to the leftists and other really stupid people of America.

[pierrem15]

It is this central issue of good faith that the CIA leak affair brings into question. The initial claims Iraq was seeking raw uranium in the west African state of Niger aroused the interest of vice-president Cheney, who asked for more investigation. At a meeting of CIA and other officials, a CIA officer working under cover in the office that dealt with nuclear proliferation, Valerie Plame, suggested her husband, James Wilson, a former ambassador to several African states, enjoyed good contacts in Niger and could make a preliminary inquiry. He did so, and returned concluding that the claims were untrue. In July 2003, he wrote an article for The New York Times making his mission -- and his disbelief -- public.

Almost everything in the paragraph is a lie. The CIA did not supply the Niger info at Cheney's prompting, and Wilson's report was non-committal about the Niger business.

My guess is Fitzgerald will show (if he's really digging into it) that the CIA fabricated the Niger docs to deliberately embarass the Bush admin.

[KC_Conspirator]

Why am I thinking that he resgined when he ran for president?

[RexBeach]

Like me you were engaging in wishful thinking!

Thank the Dear Lord there's only one Kucinich in the House. He's a very unusual person.

[churchillbuff]

My guess is Fitzgerald will show (if he's really digging into it) that the CIA fabricated the Niger docs to deliberately embarass the Bush admin."""

As an old-time conservative, I sometimes feel like I'm in a bizarro world, on FR these days. It used to be Red China, the USSR, Cuba and foreign and domestic leftists who hated the CIA, and cheered the outing of CIA operatives. Now it's neocons who hate the CIA and accuse it of the kind of shenanigans that Mao and Brezhnev and Castro used to accuse it of.

[Cyber Liberty]

Link.

[Cicero]

This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the broader question about the way the Iraq war was justified by the Bush administration.

No, if there's any truth to it, Fitzgerald is more likely investigating who forged these documents and tried to foist them on the Administration. French intelligence? The clintonoids at the CIA? A little of both? Plame and Wilson?

[pierrem15]

Now it's neocons who hate the CIA and accuse it of the kind of shenanigans that Mao and Brezhnev and Castro used to accuse it of.

Neocons or no, if the 'selective leak' shoe fits the agency, they should enjoy wearing it. Sorry, but I know people know what they're talking about when it comes to the Agency, and they're even more appalled by its current incarnation than I am.

[verity]

NTSA.

[Cicero]

I have personally known a few people at the CIA who were decent patriots. But there has always been a faction who leaked to liberal news sources such as the Compost and the Times to embarrass Republican presidents, from Reagan to Bush, and that faction got a lot larger after clinton and Tenet got through promoting their buddies.

This is not to say that the CIA is the enemy, but that regretably it has been subverted or even coopted by enemies of our country's real national interests.

[Mike Darancette]

The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.

The Frogs did it.