| Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Italian Judy Miller |
The American Prospect has the latest wrinkle in the Plamegate scandal: Just how did the U.S. come to believe that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was seeking to acquire uranium "yellow cake" from Niger? Cue the Italian forgeries, which may have come from a paid intelligence hack via the Italian equivalent of the CIA, delivered directly to one (current) National Security Advisor and (then) Condi Rice deputy, Stephen Hadley and to the U.S. embassy in Rome by a familiar-sounding courier: a female journalist and "favorite" of the Italian regime, just before the president's discredited January 2003 State of the Union address (with the blunder blamed on the CIA initially, but later tracked to the office of the National Security Advisor) ... Read on...
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Tags; CIA leak, Plame, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson , Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, White House, PlameGate, Iraq, Middle East, War, Terrorism, Foreign Policy |
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