by antiaristo » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:01 pm
Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal<br>The Source Beyond Rove<br>By ROGER MORRIS<br>Former NSC staffer<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.counterpunch.com/">www.counterpunch.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>(Eventually, British intelligence officials will admit the 2002 White Paper statement on uranium from Africa was "unfounded." Meanwhile, however, much of official Washington is aware of the CIA-MI6 squabble over the Niger uranium and questionable letters. "The Brits," a Congressional intelligence committee staffer will later tell the New Yorker's Sy Hersh in discussing the issue, "placed more stock in them than we did."<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br>=========================<br><br>Prosecutor In CIA Leak Case Casting A Wide Net<br>White House Effort To Discredit Critic Examined in Detail<br><br>By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei<br>Washington Post Staff Writers<br>Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Page A01<br><br>The special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the case.<br><br>Prosecutors have questioned former CIA director George J. Tenet and deputy director John E. McLaughlin, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, State Department officials, and even a stranger who approached columnist Robert D. Novak on the street.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072602069.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...02069.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
