Italian Intel Chief, rebuffed by CIA, took Niger story to WH (Hadley)

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/10/index.html#008117

Laura Rozen:

With Patrick Fitzgerald widely expected to announce indictments in the CIA leaks investigation, questions are again being raised about the murky matter that first led to the appointment of the special counsel: namely, how the Bush White House came into possession of discredited Italian intelligence reports claiming that Iraq sought uranium "yellowcake" from Niger.

The key documents supposedly proving the Iraqi attempt turned out to be crude forgeries on official stationery stolen from the African nation's Rome embassy. Among the most tantalizing aspects of the debate over the Iraq War is the origin of those fake documents and the role of the Italian intelligence services in disseminating them.

In an explosive series of articles appearing this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo reveal how Niccolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as SISMI, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002.

Today's exclusive report in La Repubblica reveals that Pollari met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then–Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Their secret meeting came at a critical moment in the White House campaign to convince Congress and the American public that war in Iraq was necessary to prevent Saddam Hussein from developing nuclear weapons.

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Berlusconi owns SISMI (and everything else in Italy, pretty much)

Berlusconi joined bush's war of aggression...IGNORING OVER 90% OF HIS OWN POPULATION who OPPOSED the war of aggression against Iraq.

Things that make you say...HMMMMMMMMMM.

thanks for posting :hi:

A new load of truth for the Catapult

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Update: An NSC spokesman has just confirmed to me the Pollari-Hadley meeting on September 9, 2002. Would not disclose what the topic of discussion at the meeting was, as a general rule.

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002919.html

:wow:

:wow: :wow:

is this a separate forged doc or was * LYING about that, too?

why did he chose to use the UK source in the first place over our own intel?

LIARS!

peace