The LA Times breaks yet another huge story while the WaPo and NYTimes twiddle their collective thumbs in the Beltway...Turns out those evil pansy liberals in France told the CIA that the whole Niger 'yellowcake' story was bogus..
Shocking, I know. Just shocking.
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http://www.latimes.com/...
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French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence
The foreign spy service warned the U.S. various times before the war that there was no proof Iraq sought uranium from Niger, ex-officials say.
By Tom Hamburger, Peter Wallsten and Bob Drogin, Times Staff Writers
PARIS -- More than a year before President Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service began repeatedly warning the CIA in secret communications that there was no evidence to support the allegation.