[oceanview]

The British intel is correct, the last piece in question (the false documents) were planted by the french as a poison pill to discredit the whole story. That's why the Brits are standing by the story, even while admitting the last piece of intel was "incorrect". Instead of all these mea culpas, the administration should just lay out the truth. Let's see if Gilligan resigns in the next few days.

[aristeides]

According to John Loftus on the Batchelor & Alexander show, the genuine intel was obtained in a joint Brit-Italian black bag job on the Niger embassy in Rome. (I suspect there is also interception and decryption of communications involved.) Because governments don't like to admit that sort of stuff, they're not likely to admit it here. If it were just the U.S. government involved, maybe they would. But here there are other governments involved, making the whole thing much more complicated.