Don’t know if you’ve ever discussed the June 12, 2003 KnightRidder article by Jonathan S. Landay. Seems the article which gets all the attention these days is the one published that day by Washington Post’s Walter Pincus.

The Landay article sure was full of detailed claims…wonder who HIS “senior CIA official” source was:

“A senior CIA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the intelligence agency informed the White House on March 9, 2002 – 10 months before Bush’s nationally televised speech – that an agency source who had traveled to Niger couldn’t confirm European intelligence reports that Iraq was attempting to buy uranium from the West African country.”

Even Walter Pincus didn’t stick his neck out this far…

The Landay article is here (sorry I don’t know how to hyperlink):

AJStrata: not to worry, I can take care of it easily.

“May 6th was the Kristof article in the NY Times.”

And don’t forget that Kristof met Joe Wilson at a Senate Democrat Policy Committee conference a few days before the May 6, 2003 article (see Matthew Continetti’s Weekly Standard article “A Little Literary Flair”, July 26, 2004):

“The first public mention of Joe Wilson’s February 2002 mission to Niger appeared in a May 6, 2003, column by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times. Shortly before, Wilson had met Kristof at a Senate Democratic Policy Committee conference in the capital. As Wilson later recounted to Vanity Fair, he told Kristof about his trip to Niger over breakfast the next morning, and said “Kristof could write about it, but not name him.”

Male, Democrat, former government official.

Second – Check this out – “MIRROR, MIRROR….The Carpetbagger is unimpressed with faux Republican outrage over Harry Reid’s supposed violation of congressional tradition and Senatorial courtesy in calling for a closed session yesterday:

It’s more than a little amusing to hear congressional Republicans worrying about such niceties. Which party likes to hold open five-minute votes indefinitely until the get the results they want? Which party prevents the minority from offering amendments (.pdf) to legislation? Which party forbids the minority from participating in conference committees? Which party shuts down committee hearings when they start to become politically inconvenient? Which party decided that the Senate leader of one party could campaign against the Senate leader of the other party for the first time in American political history?

Republicans want to lecture Dems about decorum and polite floor tactics? Are they kidding?”

“As Washington Monthly editor Paul Glastris pointed out last year, it’s important to remember who started this. Republicans need to take a long look in the mirror before they crank up the outrage dial too far.

UPDATE: Kash has yet another list of traditional courtesies that Republicans have done away with over the past few years.”

Third – You are aware of the secret Soviet style prisons set up in Europe under the Bush administration? Cheney certainly is since he is mounting a massive effort to defeat McCain’s anti-torture legislation. I’d have to say the CIA have been doing their job.

great article by Miller!!

Miller’s well up to speed on the story,imo,
and not about to let the looney left get away with it.
(no wonder conservatives admire the guy: he can THINK).

hooboy,they must be angry at the man.

and great digging you and Mac have been doing!

Mac’s idea the the al Tuwaitha dump might have been used as
a “yellowcake laundry”(like cocaine in an evidence room)
…and your clipped quote about the
Brits over-hearing convo between NK and Libya about Iraqi
nuke scientists working in Libya(dates?) are BIG news.

and given Saddam’s anger at sanctions
and big war-chest to play with,
not at all that big a stretch of the imagination:
part out your nuke program(like AQ Khan,Pakistan and NK and Libya were already doing) to your neighboring Arab buddies’ facilities…
and keep on grinding your way to nukes.

i hope something solid comes up from it
to get ole Harry Reid back to productive work in the US Senate.