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33. The Niger memo is notorious for many reasons, it was a fabrication used along with other lies to in-

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 02:17 PM

Oct 2014

vade Iraq.

PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 254)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254

Regardless of nationstate, many intelligence operatives use cover in embassies-the Niger memo surfaced from Italy and Mel Sembler was the Bush/Cheney Ambassador there.

Mel Sembler (SourceWatch)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mel_Sembler

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CORRECTION: US Did Find Chemical Weapons in Iraq... The Ones They Sent There [View all] Octafish Oct 2014 OP

just read the article gabeana Oct 2014 #1

Perhaps the institutional memory at NYT is defective. Octafish Oct 2014 #3

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A small correction Mnpaul Oct 2014 #27

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Yep. K&R. Rummy's pal Doug Feith is cited in another overlooked article from December 1986, Sir. bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #10

Generals don't call Feith the dumbest fucking guy on the planet for nothing. Octafish Oct 2014 #16

Yet that "dumbest fucking guy" Feith set up the Office of Special Plans with Paul Wolfowitz, which bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #19

If I remember correctly Mnpaul Oct 2014 #28

The Niger memo is notorious for many reasons, it was a fabrication used along with other lies to in- bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #33

Office of Special Plans Mnpaul Oct 2014 #37

The Office of Strategic Influence/OSI was headed by former USAF Brig. Gen. Simon Peter Worden bobthedrummer Oct 2014 #38

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K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #12

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The Real World. Octafish Oct 2014 #39

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Octafish, I found 2 more articles from 2002 from USA Today. madfloridian Oct 2014 #18

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