The "We Had Other Intelligence Sources" Defense Begins to Fall Apart

If it wasn't the Italians, the French, or the Israelis, who's left?

The Financial Times this morning claims that the countries that supplied the African uranium stories were Italy and France. The CIA and others in the Intel community claimed that the forged documents upon which the Brits built their dossier and the CIA used in their October 2002 NIE came from Italian intelligence. But now the Italians are denying that they are the source of the Niger fakes.

And, you guessed it, France has already come out and said that the other country was not them.

Furthermore, a source at the IAEA has told the media today that all the British evidence on this subject is based on fakes.

I don’t think that Mossad is that clumsy in producing fakes signed by guys who are dead or gone.

This, plus the bad news that the Third Infantry Division will not be coming home soon, [just after Rumsfeld assured Congress they would be] after all makes this a bad week for Bush.

The Left Coaster also had a link today: Approval of Bush's Job Performance Slipping, Especially With Older Voters