The premise of the article is kaka.
how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents = LIE
Enter our hero, Joseph C. Wilson, from stage left. The French forgery about Niger led straight to Wilson’s bogus trip to Africa. Wilson supposedly went there to find out the truth for the CIA. But every government involved already knew the truth about the bogus document, because it showed incorrect names of Niger officials. A single telephone call to Niger would have established that fact.
It is indeed kaka. But that is now. After endless repeating of this storyline it becomes a "Clinton Truth". We call it a lie but the MSM calls it the truth. It has to be the truth - I read it in the paper and saw it on TeeeeVeeee.