Posted on 07/25/2006 10:26:11 AM PDT by rmgatto
Now that Joseph and Valerie Wilson's fantasies of having been persecuted by high officials in the administration have been so thoroughly dispelled by Robert Novak (and now that it seems the prosecutor has determined that there was no breach of the relevant laws to begin with), we may return to the more important original question. Was there good reason to suppose that Iraqi envoys visited Niger in search of "yellowcake" uranium ore?
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
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The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, "there's this crazy report" about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq. The committee found WILSON HAD MADE AN EARLIER TRIP TO NIGER IN 1999 FOR THE CIA, ALSO AT THE SUGGESTION OF HIS WIFE".
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html
Interesting. Very. Hopefully, the truth will out...
Know why part of the CIA deemed it a "crazy report"? It's because Iraq still had large amounts of the stuff from the previous time that Niger sold it to them. ...hardly a discredit to the point.
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