Reply #101: Why were the Niger documents forged? And, perhaps more importantly, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

why were they such crude, easily detectable forgeries?

Why the persistent effort to get the Niger allegation into Bush's SOTU speech, when it had been taken out of a previous speech as too bogus?

Why did Cheney send a request to the CIA that sent it on a wild goose chase to Niger, to investigate a claim the cabal all knew was false?

Sense a flytrap here?

Fast forward. Why did the cabal go to such elaborate lengths to set Judith Miller up in Iraq, with a special "embed" contract signed by Donald Rumsfeld himself, to accompany the U.S. troops who were "hunting" for WMDs that the cabal all knew weren't there, and, further, expend such energy on priming the public for a "find" of WMDs in Iraq?

Part One of the WMD-planting theory of Treasongate is that the Niger forgeries, the SOTU speech allegation, and the wild goose chase to Niger, were all a long planned Bushite/neocon flytrap, to get the CIA to commit to a public position of "no nukes in Iraq," and then to discredit them--as well as reap enormous political benefit--when Miller "discovered" the nukes that they intended to plant in Iraq.

Trouble is, somebody found them out, and foiled their plot (prevented the planting of WMDs in Iraq). Plame/BJ, with its worldwide network of covert agents/contacts, would have been in a good position to detect such a plot and foil it. In this theory, that's what happened. But, in addition, a day after the publication of Wilson's EXPECTED article, they got a call from Tony Blair (July 7, 2003) that the Brits chief WMD expert David Kelly knew about their plot and how it was foiled. (There were stories about it in the Islamic press which he might have picked up on and investigated--he was an experienced hand at Iraq WMDs.)

Part Two of Treasongate is the Bushites' hasty, panicky effort to get Plame outed immediately, calling at least six reporters in one week (July 7-14), circulating the Plame memo on AF-1, etc., foolishly putting many top Bushites at great risk of treason charges, in an effort to STOP THIS PLOT FROM BEING EXPOSED. They would have no idea how far it had gone. They would have been both angry and fearful. They finally got Novak to bite, who outed Plame on July 14. Four days later, Kelly was found dead, in highly suspicious circumstance. His office and computers were searched. Four days after that, on July 22, Novak outed the entire CIA WMD monitoring project.

There are a lot of facts and circumstances that fit nicely into this theory, which answers many mysteries (or points to their solution), and there is a lot that is unknown. One piece of the puzzle--who was handling the planted weapons part?--might take us back to Rome, and someone else who was at the Niger forgery meeting, the Iranian arms dealer Ghorbanifar, possibly qualified to procure nuke materials or nukes that would hold up as Iraqi (if any objective experts ever got close to them), and certainly adept at moving weapons around.

I won't go into the whole Kelly case, except to say that there is evidence in the Hutton report that Blair was informed on July 7 that Kelly knew more than he had been whistleblowing about to the BBC (the "sexed up" Iraq WMD intel docs), and that the connective tissue between the Plame outing and David Kelly is Judith Miller, a friend and colleague of Kelly's (she had used him as a major quoted source in her book "Germs"), to whom Kelly sent his last email, on the day he died, in which he stated his concern about the "many dark actors playing games." (An email later released by his family, not by Miller.)

I think there is a lot more to Treasongate than the petulant, Rovian outing of a critic's CIA wife--which is already obvious to a lot of people (especially re: the parallel AIPAC/Franklin case--same players as the Niger forgers). I don't know if the WMD-planting theory is correct--still too many unknowns--but it has held up well in discussion at DU, and cries out for further investigation. The coincidence alone of the Plame/Kelly dates is provocative. The same thing was going on in England, the suppression of a dissenter on the WMD issue, at the same moment.