Monday, August 02, 2004

Plamegate: the Niger forgeries

Martino may well be the "independent" source that British intelligence maintains it had, apart from the forged documents, for the story of Iraq attempts to purchase Niger uranium. If so, it turns out that his "reports" are no more genuine than his documents. Martino alleged that the forgeries were produced by Italian intelligence, SISMI, and were given to their agent in the Niger embassy in Rome to be passed on to Martino from there. They knew Martino, who had once worked for SISMI, would immediately sell the documents to Western intelligence agencies. The question of why SISMI would produce such bad forgeries, which were falsified within a day of their receipt by the IAEA in early March of 2003, remains a mystery unresolved in Martino's account.
Juan Cole post

And, then the obvious questions: 1) why was the Italian intelligence service feeding the U.S. false information, and 2) if the documents were proven false within a day of their receipt, why were they used as evidence in the Idiot Asshat's speech?

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