Moore (*'s Brain) says Plame outing & Franklin (AIPAC) spy case connected

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Jim Moore (he wrote Bush's Brain about Karl Rove) thinks there may be a very big connection between the two.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-most-important-crimin_b_9183.html
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... Fitzgerald has reportedly asked for a copy of the Italian government’s investigation into the break-in of the Niger embassy in Rome and the source of the forged documents. The blatantly fake papers, which purported to show that Saddam Hussein had cut a deal to get yellowcake uranium from Niger, turned up after a December 2001 meeting in Rome involving neo-con Michael Ledeen, Larry Franklin, Harold Rhodes, and Niccolo Pollari, the head of Italy’s intelligence agency SISMI, and Antonio Martino, the Italian defense minister.

If Fitzgerald is examining the possibility that Ledeen was executing a plan to help his friend Karl Rove build a case for invading Iraq? Ledeen has long ties to Italian intelligence agency operatives and has spanned the globe to bring the world the constant variety of what he calls “creative destruction” to build democracies. He makes the other neo-cons appear passive. He brought the Reagan administration together with the Iranian arms dealer who dragged the country through Iran-Contra and shares with his close friend Karl Rove a personal obsession with Machiavelli. Ledeen, who is almost rabidly anti-Arab, famously told the Washington Post that Karl Rove told him, “Any time you have a good idea, tell me.”

This article may finally hold the key to the entire convoluted mess of Treasongate. All the seemingly disparate pieces seem to fall into place after reading this article. And, it would explain why Miller's reports of what she said to the grand jury seemed to leave so many unanswered questions (that she claims she "forgot" about)...