ANOTHER Italian connection to the war?! What's really going on here?

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First the Yellowcake Forgeries
Then the 'intelligence' which the UK said was reliable for several years after everyone else said it wasn't
Now this...

"The report focuses on the series of meetings in Rome held over three days in December 2001. The U.S. was fighting in Afghanistan and working on initial planning for the Iraq war.

Then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley authorized the meetings. Two Pentagon employees, one of whom worked for then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, went to Rome to meet with two Iranians — one a current member of the security service, the second a former member. Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian middleman already dismissed by the CIA as untrustworthy, also attended, as did a representative from an unspecified foreign government's intelligence service. Michael Ledeen, a former Pentagon official and an analyst with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, arranged the meeting and attended.

In one meeting, Ghorbanifar pressed for a change of government in Iran and, on a napkin, outlined a plan to do that, saying he would need $5 million to set it in motion, according to the report.

The report said Hadley failed to fully inform then-CIA Director George Tenet and then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage about the meeting. But Hadley and the Pentagon were within their rights to conduct the meeting, the report said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080605/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iran_intelligence

[stillcool]

1. all these names resurfacing...

in the mainstream press...what the hell is going on?

[lovuian]

2. yes we still got that WMD forgery hanging around

all of it lies

[populistdriven]

3. Rotten to the Core