Blame it on Rocco
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
11/07/05
Everybody's blaming Rocco, but how in the name of all that's holy does the product of an amateurish scam supposedly masterminded by a has-been-ex-spook get finagled into the White House? The FBI 'investigation,' which seems more like a cover-up, was ended, we are told, when the investigators concluded the whole thing was just a for-profit scheme, 'not an attempt to influence U.S. policy.' Let's see: a document shows up in the nick of time to buttress the administration's case that Saddam was building nukes -- at the very moment when Congress was considering this issue -- and it's all just a great big coincidence. We are supposed to believe that a couple of Italian grifters staged a robbery at the Niger embassy in Rome, cut-and-pasted a 'dossier' of fake evidence that Saddam was purchasing uranium from Niamey, and, a couple of years later, the president of the United States suddenly started spouting the same nonsensical claims. There's a transition missing here, one that explains how two Italian scam artists out to make a fast buck managed to bamboozle not only the White House but the various agencies that vet the intelligence that winds up on Bush's desk...
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7931
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Justin Raimondo
11/07/05
Everybody's blaming Rocco, but how in the name of all that's holy does the product of an amateurish scam supposedly masterminded by a has-been-ex-spook get finagled into the White House? The FBI 'investigation,' which seems more like a cover-up, was ended, we are told, when the investigators concluded the whole thing was just a for-profit scheme, 'not an attempt to influence U.S. policy.' Let's see: a document shows up in the nick of time to buttress the administration's case that Saddam was building nukes -- at the very moment when Congress was considering this issue -- and it's all just a great big coincidence. We are supposed to believe that a couple of Italian grifters staged a robbery at the Niger embassy in Rome, cut-and-pasted a 'dossier' of fake evidence that Saddam was purchasing uranium from Niamey, and, a couple of years later, the president of the United States suddenly started spouting the same nonsensical claims. There's a transition missing here, one that explains how two Italian scam artists out to make a fast buck managed to bamboozle not only the White House but the various agencies that vet the intelligence that winds up on Bush's desk...
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7931
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 7. Nov, 23:54
