Nice job eriposte (The Left Coaster). This is one of the most concise compilations of the facts related to the Uranium from Niger false claims that is the core of the outing of CIA NOC Valerie Plame/Wilson. This piece contains some good analyses and comments within the content. Save it in your bookmarks. Know the facts, don't accept the Republican framed interpretation of this whole issue.
(I did not copy the links from the body of the text. There were too many. Check the original article for the source links and the entire article).
The Left Coaster: Treasongate: Uranium from Africa in a Nutshell
PREFACEI've spent a considerable amount of time in the preceding months combing through the innards of the U.S. Senate (SSCI) Report
and British Taylor and Butler reports and other published articles, reports and analyses on the Bush State of the Union claim about Saddam Hussein having sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. I had summarized most of my findings here. What I had not done was to provide an Occam's Razor explanation of the mechanics of the uranium claim in simple terms - namely, how the claim was originally made and why it was retracted (by the CIA) or retained (by the British) once the bogus nature of the forged Niger documents was publicly revealed. I have been meaning to do this for some time now - so here goes. .
To understand this explanation, there are a couple of facts that we have to recall up front:
- Bush's SOTU claim was always about Niger, and Niger alone - and not about any other favorite African-country-of-the-day for Joseph Wilson's critics. I have demonstrated this in multiple ways previously (see here, here, here and here).
- Even though they may not have known it at the time of Wilson's trip to Niger, the CIA's Niger intel was based on claims in the forged Niger documents (which surfaced publicly well after Wilson's trip). There are, again, multiple ways to prove this (see here). .
With that starting point, here's what I deduce, based on my analysis (presented previously) of all the evidence. more...
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005825.php#more
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