AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/26/05

In investigating what led to the outing of Valerie Plame, Fitzgerald discovered that a fraud had been perpetrated on the American people and the Congress of the United States. In detailing the case for war, the administration based much of its argument that Saddam was close to acquiring nuclear weapons on a cache of documents that purported to show an agreement between Iraq and the African nation of Niger to purchase 'yellowcake' uranium. The president referred to this, albeit obliquely, in his 2003 State of the Union address. A few weeks after that speech was delivered, however, the White House was forced to retract its statement -- because the documents turned out to be forgeries. Now we discover -- and Fitzgerald no doubt knows more about this than anyone -- that it wasn't an error, another dreaded 'intelligence failure,' that had allowed the Niger uranium forgeries to be marshaled along with similarly bogus intelligence as 'evidence' of Iraqi WMD; it was a deliberate act of deception, carried out at the highest levels of the U.S. government...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7776


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp