Man, this is great, I can't wait for the next one!
Posted by iamcoyote at July 25, 2005 10:20 AMGreat series, eriposte!
Also, thanks for acknowledging my work from July 2004 on dailyKos. I am aware that my article can be tightened and some other things added or at least commented upon (see the comments to that diary), but unfortunately that diary cannot be edited anymore because it is not recent.
Cheers, and looking forward to your next installment!
Posted by dr z at July 25, 2005 11:47 AMThanks!
All I can say is - fasten your seat belts.
Posted by eriposte at July 25, 2005 12:51 PMDr. Z, I never comment on Kos, but I really did like your research as well. Great stuff, thanks.
Posted by iamcoyote at July 25, 2005 01:00 PMSuperb journalism. This blog, and others, can take real pride in the work you are doing to preserve the record of what really went on in the face of an administration-wide effort to falsify the record as regards both Joe Wilson and his wife, and the way this administration lied us into a war. Everytime I see another big-time journo talk about this whole matter, it is so clear that they have no idea that there were two sets of reports on a Niger-yellowcake-Iraq connection.
It's especially important to continue this work and trying to get it exposure, because now it is clear that there is simply no one in the Republican Party who is willing to call out their own side. Next up, I hope, we need to go after the entire process that produced that Senate report, and the disgraceful way three Senators used the process to attack two private citizens, essentially slandering them. Let's not forget Pat Roberts refusal to live up to his pledge to do a second report on the administrations role in the production of false intelligence.
Great work.
And kudos to Dr. Z. I'm a prouder than ever to be part of the liberal/left blogtopia.
Posted by Leah A at July 25, 2005 04:30 PM1)People who continually undermine the government
2)Traitors.
What's the difference?
Posted by Al at July 25, 2005 05:20 PMGee Al
I sense some slammage in your comment. Maybe you should define "government" as you seem to imply anyone against Bush (who is a traitor) is against the government. I beg to differ. Bush is dragging the good old USofA down for his nefarious, crooked-assed agenda, and you imply that we here are the traitors. Get a grip and open your mind to the possibility that Bush is one corrupt motherfucker who doesn't give a shit about the average American or the prestige of America or anything other than how to get the most moolah outta the little guy and into the pockets of his rich cronies.
You think Bush et al = the government? You know nothing.
Or maybe I'm wrong and you are saying that BushCo is both undermining the government (USA) and is also a traitor. In which case, I agree and take my insult.
Posted by Sharon at July 25, 2005 05:36 PM...take BACK my insult, that is.
Posted by Sharon at July 25, 2005 05:41 PMvalerie plame worked for the government. what traitor undermined her important work?
Posted by benjoya at July 25, 2005 05:50 PMto assess whether this intel was credible by itself
The papers were fakes as they had a signature of Allele Habibou on the October 10. 2000. He had been out of office since 1989. Any CIA agent would have known that.
Forged Niger Documents (information clearing house)
Here you have the bogus dossier on Saddam’s uranium
( Translation of La Repubblica, July 16, 2003) http://warincontext.org/editorials/bogusdossier.htm
Great reseach eriposte.
why does no one try to find out who authored the Niger documents?
Posted by Bill at July 25, 2005 09:29 PMBill, There are people trying to do that. But there's more to the Niger documents than has been said to date. Wait for my upcoming posts this week and you'll see.
Leah, thank you for the kind words. Make sure you check out the upcoming parts.
Posted by eriposte at July 25, 2005 10:08 PMWhen I use your formula to put a site, most of the time when it is not recent, it will not respond in your comment window. I do use word to write my comments; there I can open the site right away. Once copy paste, most of the time it does not re direct to it? It worked before, but lately all change. Please explain why I have this problem. I am not on cable but phone service; therefore I am not on line all the time.
Thanks in advance to anyone who could help me.
When I started to search for answers to going to war I did remember that it was dissatisfied over sea CIA who started the all Niger fake papers. (I did gave the sites before) But then it might have been started in WH!
I am glad that you let all come without restriction. Left coast was that way but change to registers only. Is that good, I do not think so, because it keeps everyone in one side. Only you same view are kept alive. We might not win the war but if we are able to change one mind, is all we need, and make sure that Diebold and co, is not the one who control our election next time. Realities have to come to all those republicans in power; they have no guts to vote against this president. Maybe the latest scandal will help a change in congress? I do not mean by this that Democrats are better, far from it. They are all men that do not care about any of us. It is sadly the same thing all over the world.
Good analysis.
One more point regarding Ambassador Wissam al Zahawi's, the Iraqi Vatican envoy, trip to Niger. He met with General Mainassare who took power in a coup on January 27, 1996. The visit which is claimed to have resulted in "the deal" occurred in early February of 1999. But Mainassare was assassinated in a coup and this government deposed on April 9th, 1999. One holdover was the Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayake, who was interviewed by Wilson.
Are we thus to believe that somehow these earlier discussions led to the contracts being signed the next year...through a changeover in the government?
And what's more, the General who took power in THAt coup-de-tat, General Daouda Malam Wanke, stepped down after elections in December 1999. SO IN FACT, there were TWO turnovers in the government of Niger. And Mayake left power in that turnover on January 5th 2000.!
And then suddenly...somehow the contracts are arranged, signed by Niger's State Court(!?!?!?) in late 2000?
It's all a bit too implausible. This sort of deal never have occurred without someone complaining that they weren't getting their "cut", ratting political opponents out to the IAEA, etc.
Posted by cinnamonape at October 28, 2005 04:25 PM