eRiposte has another important Nigergate find. Not only did Sismi "correct" multiple glaring flaws in the information from the Niger forgeries it sent on to the CIA, it appears that the US withheld the most glaringly fake forgery from the bunch that it forwarded onto the IAEA. Go read.

Meantime, La Repubblica is reporting the French side of Nigergate today, suggesting that the CIA got ahold of the forgeries themselves as early as July 2002. For Nigergate sleuths, that means that the US would had gotten ahold of the forgeries three months before Panorama journalist Elisabetta Burba walked into the US embassy in October 2002. If true, it would be interesting to know, from where did the US get them?

Posted by Laura at December 1, 2005 11:12 AM