They're Flat Out Lying

[BurtWorm]

They hope that Tenet's "admission" of mistake making and sweet Condi's assertion that they didn't know the Niger document was forged until March 2003 is going to solve the problem and make it go away. But it won't. We know that the Bushists knew by March 2002 at the latest that the documents were phony. This was reported by Nicholas Kristoff of the Times, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post, and Joseph Wilson on last Sunday's NY Times Op-Ed page. A bunch of people know for a fact that the Bushists are lying, and so does anyone who has been paying half-attention to this story since the Guardian broke it last spring. They're lying. This will not go away.

[Az]

1. Who provided Bush and Co

with the British Intel? The dodge is that the Bushies sited the British intel for the connection. So who provided Bush with the British intel. We do not have a British rep advising George so it had to come from the CIA. The story they are passing doesn't work.

[BurtWorm]

3. British intelligence is seething

They feel that the Americans are trying to pretend the Brits put them up to passing bogus info during the state of the union. Blair is going to side with the Brits. A rift between Bush and Blair could be coming, especially if Blair believes it will repair his standing at home.

[PurityOfEssence]

2. And badly

Even if it can sort of deflect the incoming somewhat to have Tenet be a remiss gatekeeper, the undeniable truth is that there was endless, vigorous HUNGER on the part of the White House to use any shopworn innuendo or just plain bilgewater to justify their murderous, mineral-hungry adventurism and daddyrevenge. The fact still points out that they haven't even a scruplesque whiff of restraint to do as they damn well please to get their way. Any version of this still shows that the administration had a whopper hard-on to conquer Iraq and they would stop at nothing that couldn't be jerry rigged to work. This still makes them liars. The fact that they're willing to destroy anyone in the process just highlights their extreme cowardice.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Who did the forgery and why?

Italian intelligence? Why? On whose orders?

I wonder why that angle isn't being persued?....this could still end up to be a bigger problem for this administration, IMHO.

[BurtWorm]

5. I think it will be pursued

unless "something big happens" to distract us all from it.