Originally Posted By ElKay I came across this interesting article:<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl dlatest/story/0</a>,1280,-5369408,00.html "Nicolo Pollari, director of the SISMI intelligence agency, will be questioned on Nov. 3 by members of the commission overseeing secret services, said Micaela Panella, a commission spokeswoman. She said Pollari asked to be questioned after reports Monday and Tuesday in the Rome daily La Repubblica claiming SISMI passed on to the CIA, U.S. government officials and Britain's MI6 intelligence services a dossier it knew was forged. The documents detailed a purported Iraqi deal to buy 500 tons of uranium yellowcake from Niger, a claim the United States and Britain used to try to prove Saddam Hussein was seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction and justify the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Italian government - a staunch U.S. ally - repeatedly has denied reports that SISMI passed on documents about the Niger affair. Some of the intelligence supporting the claim was later deemed unreliable and the political fight that ensued is at the center of a U.S. federal grand jury probe into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer. Pollari's hearing will not be open to the public, but the commission's president, Enzo Bianco, was expected to brief reporters after the meeting, Panella said. La Repubblica claimed that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Pollari was under pressure from Premier Silvio Berlusconi to make a strong contribution to the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The newspaper is a strong opponent of Berlusconi." No only can't you trust your enemies, but you can't even trust your friends. This makes Bush look like a willing conspirator to a fabricated reason for war or a dupe, incapable of decerning truth from fiction.
