Do we know if the journalist took the papers to any other embassy or if that embassy shared the documents with any other country for analysis at that point in the story?

good hunting!!!

i don't know that it is relevant to your current inquiry, but i read recently, i think in one of e'wheel's posts at next hurrah,

that the chief fund raiser for scooter libby's defense fund was a guy named mel sembler, a florida developer and long-time republican money raiser. if i'm recalling correctly, the post included the fact that sembler was the ambassador to italy during some of the niger forgeries caper.

i guess the question is: was sembler a conduit for some kind of "summary" of the forgeries, minus the docs themselves, being "hand-carried" across the atlantic to the office of v.p., state dept, cia/winpac, etc?.

Mainsailset,
The forgeries were passed around to other countries by Rocco Martino, not the journalist. More on that tomorrow.

OrionATL,
I am loathe to speculate on Sembler's connections to the uranium claims right now since I don't have enough information yet to make informed judgements on that aspect.

Eriposte I can hardly belive you don't get hundreds of comments.
Your investigative journalism skills are SPECTACULAR!
I throw bouquets at your feet.

John Forde