Niger Uranium memo may have come from Israel!

[Peachhead22]

I'm listening to MSNBC's countdown just now and they're talking to Larry Johnson on the phone about the Pentagon/Israeli spy story. He's saying the investigation has been going on for months and it also involves the possibility the Niger Uranium forged memos came from Israel!

Of course that's what many (most) of us suspected but now were talking there may be proof!

1) The neo-cons are FUBARed
2) This may hurt BushCo
3) We could have a wall-to-wall anti-Bush news story just before and maybe during the RNC convention

[Cush]

1. I wonder if this is what Josh Marshall has been alluding to?

with his "Shifting of tectonic plates"

[Mad As Hell]

2. Oh please yes.

This story looks like it has legs.

[Rockholm]

7. My thoughts exactly!

Keeping fingers crossed.

[Carni]

10. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade

And maybe I am dense.... but how do we know this will be blamed on the bush regime after everything is said and done?

This just looks to me like an excuse to shitcan Rumsfeld because he has become a burden after the abu gharib report and then blame everything on some Israeli spy situation (including the niger forgery which I happen to think bush and his cohorts knew damned good and well was a bogus deal.)

I am not being a smart ass here just wondering if this is a scam to get pressure off of bush.

It also would seem to shift blame from bush's love affair with Chalabi wouldn't it?

Again I am not flaming- I am asking.

[Pallas180]

11. No one in the Mossad would be so stupid as not to know the

Ambassador's name of Niger at the time the "letter" forgery was supposed to be written.

They may or may not have a spy in the Pentagon but it is doubtful that
the forgery came from Israel in my opinion.

to have the wrong name and signature has to come from the village idiot.

And what village idiot in Washington do we know?

[Carni]

12. Yeah that was kind of what I was thinking

I have a feeling that Dumsfeld wouldn't resign no matter what they did to him and at this point he's going to become a liability.

This will ensure his resignation because he won't have any choice.

I guess I am just seeing this spun in the future as "it wasn't bush's fault" he was "out of the loop" (like the Tenet thing)

[My Pet Goat]

3. I thought Buchanan would poopoo the whole thing...

but then I remembered his anti-Iraq stance... :D

Conspiracy theories are flying...

[bearfan454]

4. Rove must be shitting in his pants.

Show your true colors KKKarl.

[Killarney]

5. Please be huge. Please be huge.

[Renew Deal]

6. The middle east would freak out if this is true.

It makes a lot of their ranting true. The US is a tool of Israel.

[David Dunham]

8. This story is very, very true.

[Eloriel]

9. I didn't suspect it, but I sure as hell should have

This is amazing.

On another thread, someone made the point that reality might be a lot scarier than even the "conspiracy theorists" think. I think he had a point, and news like this (even as rumor so far) certainly helps confirm that observation.