[ex-snook]

"Critics have said the Iraq-Niger assertion, which later was found to be based partly on forged documents, showed the administration had tried to hype intelligence to make a case for going to war. "

Wilson is a side-show to the main question yet unanswered, who was in the chain that forged and forwarded the documents? Why is this still covered up?

[oceanview]

the word (john loftus) is that the french forged the documents. they knew the brits had solid evidence regarding this (which is still true), so they planted this "big lead" as a poison pill, knowing that when this one piece of evidence (the papers) was shown to be forged it would discredit the entire story, even the good stuff.

[cyncooper]

"Critics have said the Iraq-Niger assertion, which later was found to be based partly on forged documents, showed the administration had tried to hype intelligence to make a case for going to war. "

Wilson is a side-show to the main question yet unanswered, who was in the chain that forged and forwarded the documents? Why is this still covered up?

I'd like to know about the forged documents, too.

But why does the media continue to misreport the story? Bush did not base any statement in his SOTU Address on forged documents or Joseph Wilson tea-sipping trips. He based it on British Intelligence which was not based on the forged documents at all.

Each story I've read today on this investigation makes it appear that President Bush made a reference to Niger based on forged documents and ignored Wilson. That is not true.

As to the Wilsons. I've been posting on other threads and I think this story is being spun to draw attention away from whatever they've done and make it appear the Bush administration has done something wrong. Someone on another thread made the excellent analogy to the Florida couple taping Newt and company and the initial stories were spun that it was the Republicans' discussion that was the wrongdoing. Same here, IMO.

And btw, Novak did not report Plame was an "undercover" operative. She may have been, either in the past or was currently, but I don't think so. Again, lazy and loose use of language by these "reporters" to help direct the story the way they wish.