FBI Probing Forged Papers on Niger Uranium

[kskiska]

The FBI is investigating the origin of forged documents indicating that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, and one candidate for the forgeries is an Iraqi opposition group, U.S. officials said.

The documents, obtained first by Italy's intelligence service, ended up fooling the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies into believing Baghdad was trying to buy uranium ore from the African nation, U.S. officials say.
The documents ended up "tainting" other reliable intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs and undermining the credibility of U.S. intelligence reports, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

One official said that the documents were provided first to the Italians and then to journalists before they ended up in the hands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which dismissed them as fakes.

FBI spokesman Bill Carter said in an interview that a preliminary inquiry into the documents was undertaken after recent meetings between senior FBI officials and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030719-120154-5384r.htm

[Frances]

1. Read the whole article

and you can see why so many Americans believe Bush.

The article gives some information, but there is such spin. Here's one example:

"According to U.S. officials, the State Department's opposition to the intelligence on Niger uranium in the report was related to the department's doubts about Iraq's purchase of special alloy tubes that were believed to be for building gas centrifuges."

We all know that Wilson said that he checked with our many officials and learned that the group that is in charge of the uranium is very good and would know if any (especially that quantity) was unaccounted for.

[w13rd0]

2. Um...

...did someone say Chalabi?

Gee, and who was backing Chalabi? Rummy and Wolfowitz and Cheney...

Who fed us all that crap intel about Iraq? Oh, Chalabi...

Who is now hacked off that they aren't being crowned king?

What a tangled web they weave...

[Jackpine Radical]

3. FBI = Ashcroft.

Whoopee.

[Booberdawg]

4. Yeah, big whoop.

FBI will cook the results any way president cheney wants them