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Knight Ridder Newspapers
Indictment doesn't clear up mystery at heart of CIA leak
Sat Oct 29, 2005 04:39
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Posted on Fri, Oct. 28, 2005
Indictment doesn't clear up mystery
at heart of CIA leak probe
By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P.
Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - At the heart of Friday's indictment of a top White House aide
remain two unsolved mysteries.
Who forged the documents that claimed Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for
nuclear weapons in the African country of Niger?
How did a version of the tale get into President Bush's 2003 State of the
Union address, even though U.S. intelligence agencies never confirmed it and
some intelligence analysts doubted it?
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who found no substance to the alleged deal
during a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, accused Bush in July 2003 of twisting the
intelligence.
Shortly thereafter, the identity of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a covert
CIA officer, was leaked to journalists, igniting special counsel Patrick J.
Fitzgerald's probe.
The FBI has been investigating the clumsy forgeries, which first surfaced in
Rome in October 2002, for two years, but has made little progress, four U.S.
government officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the
investigation continues. Those officials blame a lack of cooperation from
Italy. A spokesman for the Italian Embassy in Washington denied that.
But a weeks-long review by Knight Ridder has established that:
-Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, and people close to it,
repeatedly tried to shop the bogus Niger uranium story to governments in
France, Britain and the United States. That created the illusion that multiple
sources were confirming the story.
The CIA had begun receiving intelligence reports based on the same forgeries
in October 2001, but they could not be confirmed. Copies of the fake documents
suddenly surfaced at a critical point in the White House's fall 2002 campaign
to take the country to war in Iraq.
The CIA eventually determined that the earlier reports were "based on the
forged documents" and were "thus ... unreliable," a presidential
commission on unconventional weapons proliferation said in March.
-State Department intelligence analysts and some in the CIA discounted the
uranium story. But White House officials, working through a back channel to one
CIA unit, seized on the tale, and it was included in Bush's case for war.
The following is a chronology of events that led up to the indictment of I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. It's
based on interviews and on reports by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the
presidentially appointed panel on weapons intelligence.
Oct. 15, 2001 - The CIA received the first of three top-secret reports from
a foreign intelligence service - which intelligence officials said was Italy's
SISMI - that Niger planned to ship tons of uranium ore, or yellowcake, to Iraq.
SISMI was behind similar reports in Britain and France. Paris never put any
stock in the reports, according to two European officials. London has stood
behind its statement that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa.
February 2002 - Cheney and other officials asked the CIA to find out more.
Some CIA and Pentagon analysts were impressed with the reporting. But the
State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) was skeptical. Its
analysts noted that France controls Niger's uranium mines and argued that Iraq
wouldn't risk being caught breaking U.N. sanctions.
The CIA station in Rome was skeptical of the reports from the start.
Feb. 21 - Wilson traveled to Niger at the CIA's request to investigate the
purported uranium deal. He said he found nothing to substantiate the
allegation. Neither did two other U.S. officials who investigated.
March 8 - The CIA circulated a report on Wilson's trip - without identifying
him - to the White House and other agencies.
Sept. 9 - With the White House's public campaign against Iraq in full swing,
Nicolo Pollari, head of SISMI, met with then-Deputy National Security Adviser
Stephen J. Hadley at the White House. Hadley later took the blame for including
the false Niger allegation in Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech.
National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said Thursday that the
meeting was a 15-minute courtesy call and that no one could recollect talk
about yellowcake.
Oct. 1 - U.S. intelligence agencies sent the White House and Congress their
key prewar assessment of Iraq's illicit weapon programs, which said Iraq was
"vigorously" trying to buy uranium ore and had sought deals with
Niger, Somalia and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The State
Department's INR dissented in the report.
Oct. 5 - Then-CIA Director George Tenet advised Hadley to drop a reference
to Niger from the draft of a nationally televised speech that Bush was to give
on Oct. 7 because the "president should not be a fact witness on this
issue" as "the reporting was weak." The sentence was removed.
The CIA then wrote the White House that "the evidence (of a uranium ore
deal) is weak. One of the two mines cited by the source of the uranium oxide is
flooded. The other mine cited by the source is under the control of the
French."
Oct. 9 - An Italian journalist for the Rome magazine Panorama, owned by
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a supporter of the Iraq war, gave the
U.S. Embassy a copy of the purported agreement by Niger to sell yellowcake to
Iraq.
The journalist, Elisabetta Burba, reportedly received the documents from
Italian businessman Rocco Martino, who has connections to SISMI.
The Italian government has denied any connection to the forged documents.
The embassy forwarded a copy to the State Department. It raised the
suspicion of an INR nuclear analyst, who noted in an e-mail that the documents
bear a "funky Emb. Of Niger stamp (to make it look official, I
guess.)"
Jan. 13, 2003 - The INR nuclear analyst told other analysts that he believed
the Niger documents were forgeries.
Jan. 16 - The CIA finally received copies of the forged French-language
documents. It sent them back to the State Department to be translated.
Jan. 17 - A CIA analytical unit known as WINPAC (Weapons Intelligence,
Nonproliferation, and Arms Control) said in a secret assessment that there was
"fragmentary reporting" on Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium from
"various countries in Africa."
Sometime in late January, Robert Joseph, a senior White House staffer, and
Alan Foley, the head of WINPAC, agreed that Bush could refer to the uranium
claim in his State of the Union speech, but he should cite a public British
report.
Jan. 28 - Bush delivered the State of the Union.
Feb. 5 - Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the U.N. Security Council
on the threat from Iraq but didn't repeat the yellowcake allegation.
March 3 - The International Atomic Energy Agency told the United States that
the documents were forgeries after an expert used the Google search engine to
identify false information.
July 6 - In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Wilson wrote that his
failure to confirm the alleged uranium deal led him to conclude that the Bush
administration "twisted" some of the intelligence it used to justify
the war.
July 14 - Syndicated columnist Robert Novak identified Plame in a column.
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