Niger Uranium Forgery
Mystery Solved?
The Fitzgerald/Plame investigation goes in a new direction
by Justin Raimondo October 19, 2005
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7681
Amid all the brouhaha over whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl
Rove, or any number of Bush administration insiders had a hand in
leaking the name of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, the essential
crime at the core of the investigation - and its probable starting
point - often gets lost in the shuffle. The "outing" of Plame was not
an end in itself: the outers didn't just one day decide that they were
going to go after her and Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, her husband,
because they were in a vindictive mood. They were out to get them
because Wilson drew attention to the provenance of the infamous "16
words" uttered by President Bush in his 2003 state of the union
address, in which Bush claimed that Iraq had sought out uranium to
make a nuclear bomb in "an African country." Perhaps without knowing
it, Wilson - in taking an interest in this subject - was getting too
close to the enormous fraud at the center of the War Party's
propaganda campaign.
Rest of article at:
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