Intelligence Scam

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Two bit forgeries: I heard Waxman say something to the effect that they will have to open the hearings or produce the documents since ABC News already had them.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/uranium030714_docs.html

<snip> "And as is now well known, the documents themselves were printed with obsolete Iraqi and Niger letterheads and were soon spotted as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency and made public when the agency's chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, testified before the U.N. Security Council on March 8.

"It was not really very difficult for us to come to the quick conclusion that these documents were forgeries," he said.

Vice President Played Key Role
Not only was Vice President Dick Cheney seated directly behind President Bush when he cited the flawed information in his State of the Union address, but Cheney played a key and personal role in pushing CIA analysts to confirm the Niger story, intelligence sources told ABCNEWS.

"The vice president and his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, took a personal interest in this matter and discussed at CIA with analysts," said Cannistraro.

Cheney made at least two trips to meet with intelligence analysts in the time leading up to the war, although the CIA says the Niger issue itself was never on the agenda."