Think Progress is all over the Niger forgeries story. And a very interesting story coming out of Italy too.

Italy has a small boutique newspaper called Il Foglio, edited by a flamboyant and extremely well-connected guy named Giuliano Ferrara, a former Berlusconi minister who's been described to me as Italy's only neoconservative. I struggle to read through the paper's interesting blog, Camillo, when I get the chance. In any case, Il Foglio pushes back today on the Pollari-Hadley meeting story in an interesting way today: by saying Condoleezza Rice was there too!

A friend in Rome sends word, "As I told you, this morning, Il Foglio, a daily newspaper whose editor in chief (Giuliano Ferrara) is a former minister of Berlusconi pushes back on the 9th september 2002 meeting. Quoting an unnamed intelligence source (I understand an "italian source", but the paper doesn't elaborate) they say:

...The meeting was attended also by Condoleezza Rice, with whom Pollari talked, a high ranking CIA officer, and some other members of the Italian delegation which was led by Pollari...

Hmm. Think the NSC will confirm that? And who exactly from the CIA? I also hear there was a whole delegation of Sismi people in town for the meeting.

Is this misdirection? The truth?

Posted by Laura at October 28, 2005 11:38 AM