In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
The power of TCS (yes I know we're an obscure site in a dark corner of the internet... but let's pretend!)
In a post eariler this month we explained how easy it would be to win a pulitzer.
Okay the uranium claim was one of the biggest claims in getting people concerned about Iraq, and they were based on forgeries... really bad forgeries.
So don't you think looking into who made the forgeries would be a big story?
I mean, I don't think it was the CIA, they'd do a better job (I'd hope)
But how about some zealous American Neocons?
Chalabi? Someone from the Iraqi National Congress?
or how about Iranian intelligence?
(yep I just quoted myself, I feel so important now)
Well thanks to the amazing influence of TCS (play along now), It really looks like someone is about to go for it.
None other than the Joshua Marshall of Talking Points Memo.
If you're up on the arcana of the 'Niger-uranium' story you'll remember that they first came to light when a source -- an unnamed Italian businessman and security consultant -- gave copies of them to an Italian journalist named Elisabetta Burba.
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According to the Financial Times article, that business man is likely himself the forger of the documents and he has a long history of bad acts which, they say, discredit him as a source of information. That last tidbit plays a key part in the FT story because, in their words, the provider of the documents is "understood to be planning to reveal selected aspects of his story to a US television channel."
That's what the FT says.
I hear something different.
In fact, I know something different.
My colleagues and I have reported on this matter extensively, spoken to key players involved in the drama, and put together a detailed picture of what happened. And that picture looks remarkably different from this account which is out today -- specifically on the matter of the origins of those forged documents and who was involved.
Lots of hints. No names. Between torturegate, plamegate, and many other gates, I didn't think Cakegate (for yellowcake uranium) would come back to life, but I'm very happy it looks like it will. Oh, and by the way TCS wants worldwide creidt for coining Cakegate, um, unless its already in use... nevermind.
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