< waving hand wildly >Oh...Oh...Oh...I know the answer!
Jacqueline, (Joe's his second wife), was a French diplomat and may have provided the connections for Wilson to see the forged documents that were supplied by the French through the Italians. In other words it is possible that Wilson knew that the docs were forged because he was privy to the information that French wanted to discredit the British info on Saddam shopping for yellowcake and that Wilson's objective was the same. The French just happen to manage the yellowcake production in Niger. It has also been reported that Jacqueline was a "cultural counselor" for the French Embassy, which some say is code for she was doing undercover work.
French intelligence soon began a campaign to discredit the US case for war against Iraq. In 1999, French intelligence had begun investigating the security of uranium supplies in Niger, where uranium production was controlled by a consortium led by the French mining company COGEMA, a division of the French state-owned nuclear energy firm AREVA. At that time, Italian businessman Rocco Martino provided French intelligence with genuine documents revealing that Iraq was planning to expand trade with Niger. French intelligence took an interest in the documents and asked Martino to provide more information. In 2000 he used a contact in the Niger embassy in Rome to provide French intelligence with documents purporting that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger. These documents were later exposed as forgeries;
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Since it is now also known that French intelligence was trying to push Martino’s forgeries on US and British intelligence, as simultaneously the Democratic National Committee was planning to discredit President Bush’s Iraq policy by accusing his administration of manufacturing evidence against Hussein’s regime, heightened suspicion is cast on Wilson’s use of the Niger investigation to discredit the Bush administration’s case for war.
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Thanks for the link to:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1256475/posts
What Joe Wilson Doesn't Say About Africa
and about France and about his connections with French diplomats or Saudi-middle east business interests, or African business interests, or business interest that got Iraqi oil for food money, or other nefarious associations of his, including his long-time and dedicated political support to prominent Democrats.
We need POTUS/FBI/AG to designate a special prosecutor with a Grand Jury and we need Wilson, Plame and Deputy CIA Dir MNcLauglin under oath - who forged the October 9 documents and who knew about them before October 9 and who knew the documents were coming.
And
mostly, the documents were not the intelligence which predicated the Wilson Niger trip and their importance was overwhelmed by many prior and ongoing intelligence streams on the matter.
Exposing the documents as frauds is only relevant to the Wilsonian/Dim lies when those facts are ignored.