An Early Fitzmas Present for You
Oct 25th, 2005 at 12:44 pm by Susie
White House staffer tied to yellow cake document forgeries:
Today’s exclusive report in La Repubblica reveals that Pollari met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then–Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Their secret meeting came at a critical moment in the White House campaign to convince Congress and the American public that war in Iraq was necessary to prevent Saddam Hussein from developing nuclear weapons.
The La Repubblica article quotes a Bush administration official saying, “I can confirm that on September 9, 2002, general Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley.”
Update: Here’s Laura Rozen’s story and Josh Marshall’s update.
