White House e-Mails Missing in CIA Name Case
Joel Seidman and Norah O'Donnell write on MSNBC:
A letter from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby defense team reveals that some White House e-mails from 2003 weren't archived as they should have been.
The year 2003 is significant in the CIA leak investigation. It's the year that CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was allegedly leaked to reporters to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for his failure to buttress administration claims of yellowcake uranium found in Niger, uranium the administration said was earmarked for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, based on forged documents obtained by the Bush White House.
Administration officials went so far as to include a 16-word reference to the purported uranium purchase in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech. But shortly before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the documents on uranium in Niger were found to be fakes, a revelation that undercut some of the administration rationale for going to war.
posted by Fergie @ 2/03/2006 11:24:00 AM
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