Shell Game
Jul 30th, 2005 at 2:52 pm by Susie
Josh Marshall reports the FBI investigation into the forged Niger memos may have been nothing more than a rationale:
As last year’s Senate intel report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction states in a footnote at bottom of Page 57, it was because of this FBI investigation that the Intelligence Committee walled off everything about the documents prior to their arrival at the U.S. Embassy in October 2002. So everything about how those forgeries came into being and why they ended up in the hands of the U.S. government remained beyond the purview of the committee. Committee investigators simply didn’t look into it.
That might make sense if there were an active FBI investigation. But there’s every reason to think that the FBI’s investigation was a phantom probe from the start.
