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Two things stand out in this new ad from Valerie Plame, who is running for Congress as a Democrat in New Mexico. She declares, “Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity. His name? Scooter Libby.” This is false. Former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage acknowledged in 2006 that he was the source who first revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak back in 2003.(snip) Plame then declares, “I come from Ukrainian Jewish immigrants.” This is no doubt meant to be a shield against those who would...

NIGERGATE: The FBI re-opens the case, joint investigation with SISMI, the role of the French 007’s to be examined Chiocci and Sechi strike again. The following appeared in the Sunday edition of Il Giornale, interesting reading indeed. Of particular interest is the French slant, interesting because it needs to be investigated, interesting also because the first to point it out were the people her at FR. This new joint FBI-SISMI investigation has to be followed closely because it’s going to turn up some startling little gems, a lot of people are going to get very upset. Lets watch it happen………....

NIGERGATE: BUSH TOLD THE TRUTH ……. BUT DID THE LIBERAL MSM ? Another interesting piece today from the Italian newspaper Il Foglio. Following-up on yesterday’s excellent article Il Foglio takes another look at how lies were, and still are, propagated through the anti-3B liberal media. President George W. Bush was correct in stating during his State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” The statement was true, indeed to quote the British Government’s Butler Report “It is accepted by all parties...

NIGERGATE THE TRUTH: HOW THE FRENCH TRICKED THE USA “I was employed by the French since 1996. I handed the false documents on the uranium trade between the Africa and Iraq to them” –-- With this startling declaration Rocco Martino, the freelance spy at the centre of the false Niger dossier, has confirmed that France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq. Before examining Martino’s deposition it’s worth taking a look at some of the details regarding France contained in the Senate Select Committee...

NIGERGATE: UPDATE - FBI AND SISMI TO INVESTIGATE FOREIGN, INCLUDING US, CITIZENS Yet another Italian news agency is reporting the latest news on the Nigergate front. This is hot, really hot. According to AGI following the decision to conduct a joint inquiry (FBI-SISMI) “satisfaction and the absolute will to collaborate” has been expressed by a number of Italian government and intelligence sources. According to one SISMI source “its about a precise line of inquiry that we indicated”, a line of inquiry that “stimulated enormous interest in a number of institutions including the FBI whom we have been working with since...

According to the New York Times the F.B.I. inquiry into the origins of the forged Niger documents have “yielded some intriguing but unproved theories”. A counterespionage official stated that the forgeries are “being investigated as a counterintelligence case, not a criminal one”. This can only mean one thing: there is more behind Nigergate than meets the eye. When the report reaches Mueller’s desk and the investigation is closed at long last all of the facts will be there for all to see. At that point somebody will be asked to make an inventory of all the damage caused by the...

NIGERGATE: WHY THE FRENCH ARE STILL LAUGHING AT THE U.S.A. (Part III) I’ve translated a press release that the Italian government has had to issue following yet another attack from the La Repubblica newspaper. I think that this is the third time that the government has officially stated that the articles published by La Repubblica were nothing other than a pack of lies. I guess that this is the ugly side of freedom of the press, you can print lies and false information and get away with it. During the week La Repubblica published a so called “investigative report” by...

NIGERGATE: WHY THE FRENCH ARE STILL LAUGHING AT THE U.S.A. (Part II) The inside story of how President George Bush’s administration is facing a dire crisis thanks to a set-up orchestrated by French spies, US journalists and a man with a white moustache. Part 2 of 2 Introduction: The first part of this posting I introduced the Laurel and Hardy of Italian investigitive reporting, our friends Chip and Chop. I invited readers to study what I wrote last year and to read what the diabolical duo published earlier this week in Italy’s second most important newspaper, La Repubblica. In addition...

NIGERGATE: WHY THE FRENCH ARE STILL LAUGHING AT THE U.S.A. (Part I) The inside story of how President George Bush’s administration is facing a dire crisis thanks to a set-up orchestrated by French spies, US journalists and a man with a white moustache. Part 1 of 2 Introduction: The Bush administration is in a crisis. The Fitzgerald investigation is the numer one story throughout the United States and confidence in the President is falling. Fitzgerald’s conclusions damage the White House, and thus the American public, is going to suffer. This posting examines an important aspect of why all of this...

ROME — Secret meetings. Spies. Forged documents. Government denials. Burglary. As Washington braces for the possible indictment of some of its most powerful officials, Italy is reliving its own small but significant role in "Niger-Gate," the scandal that surfaced as the Bush administration made its case for war in Iraq. If all roads lead to Rome, so do the rumors: Washington's problem with the leak of a CIA officer's identity has tentacles here. Former U.S. diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV, whose wife was the covert CIA operative whose identity might have been leaked by White House officials, was dispatched in...