Ghorbanifar again
Manucher Ghorbanifar has come up again in relation to bad intel on Uranium in Iraq Rawstory is reporting. Remember that Ghorbanifar has long links to some in this administration which stretch back to his key role as arms dealer in Iran Contra.
I don't see too much here, Weldon's terror credentials get shot to crap because he believed the lies despite CIA and DIA efforts to dissuade him. Also, another mention of the 2001 meeting between Ledeen, Rhode, Franklin(yes, Larry Franklin,) significant Iranian political officials, SISMI(Italian intel,) and Chalabi who reportedly brought the Niger forgeries. (Good article on that meeting here. And James Risen has one here.)
The only other new element I see is that according to this Rawstory article, is that Ledeen's trip was put on hold by Hadley at the NSC, but was secretly green lighted by Feith's OSP without telling anybody else about it.
This all seems to be circling around the same channels and people as the Niger forgeries. Without the question, the best work on this has been done by eriposte over at the Leftcoaster. If I'm giving the awards, this is the best, most complete bit of blogger reporting I have ever seen.
I don't see too much here, Weldon's terror credentials get shot to crap because he believed the lies despite CIA and DIA efforts to dissuade him. Also, another mention of the 2001 meeting between Ledeen, Rhode, Franklin(yes, Larry Franklin,) significant Iranian political officials, SISMI(Italian intel,) and Chalabi who reportedly brought the Niger forgeries. (Good article on that meeting here. And James Risen has one here.)
The only other new element I see is that according to this Rawstory article, is that Ledeen's trip was put on hold by Hadley at the NSC, but was secretly green lighted by Feith's OSP without telling anybody else about it.
This all seems to be circling around the same channels and people as the Niger forgeries. Without the question, the best work on this has been done by eriposte over at the Leftcoaster. If I'm giving the awards, this is the best, most complete bit of blogger reporting I have ever seen.
posted by mikevotes at
12:55 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, Leslie, that's kinda what I thought. Nothing really new except maybe the revelation that the Ledeen Ghorbanifar meeting took place after the rest of the government told them not to with Feith's approval.
I put up the teaser before they put the article up, so I felt obliged to put this up. Probably wouldn't have blogged it otherwise.
Mike
By
mikevotes, at 6:24 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home