Yellowcake to 'Plamegate':"Something Weird" about those docs

[kpete]

Yellowcake to 'Plamegate'
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

How mishandled intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war led to an indictment in the White House.

WASHINGTON – The first time the State Department intelligence analyst saw the documents he thought there was something weird about them.

This is the story of how those words came to be, and how their effect rippled through the years, ultimately resulting in the criminal indictment of a high administration official, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Culled primarily from US government reports and congressional testimony, it deals with nuclear materials, foreign spies, and a secret trip to the finest refueling stop in Africa. It centers on a peculiar set of documents - provenance as yet unknown - that a presidential inquiry three years later found to be "transparently forged."

Much about the affair remains to be discovered. But one thing now seems clear: If US intelligence agencies had spent more time studying the evidence in their possession, the president might never had said those words. Scooter Libby probably would be in his White House office today.

Lots more, including timeline:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1115/p01s04-uspo.html

[HereSince1628]

1. Photo-copy the pages from CSMonitor, leave them in bathrooms

and break rooms all across America.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Any one see John Dean on KO last night?

Dean is positing charges of ESPIONAGE for Cheney. He brought up several key points about the indictment and Fitzgerald's statements during the press conference.

THAT could answer a whole lot of questions.

[nickinSTL]

3. Don't they have editors at the CS Monitor?

I mean, really..."...the president might never had said those words."

Might never had said? :eyes:

And, don't journalists generally capitalize "President"?

As to the content...Of course the president would have said those words...they KNEW. They just used it to further their own aims.