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Wednesday, April 02, 2003

From The New Yorker: Hendrik Hertzberg is a great commentator, but for investigative gold you might look to Seymour Hersh. His stuff regularly provokes the ire of those in the Bush Administration whose ire is most worth provoking. His most recent piece is pretty scathing, and reportedly pissed off Donald Rumsfeld right good and proper. Also good is this Hersh piece from last week, in which we learn how stupid or deceptive (take your pick) the Bush Administration and the CIA really are. He discusses how the documents that were supposed to prove that Iraq bought a bunch of Uranium from Niger were obviously false. Ridiculously, obviously false. It says that throughout the documents
the problems were glaring. One letter, dated October 10, 2000, was signed with the name of Allele Habibou, a Niger Minister of Foreign Affairs and Coöperation, who had been out of office since 1989. Another letter, allegedly from Tandja Mamadou, the President of Niger, had a signature that had obviously been faked and a text with inaccuracies so egregious, the senior I.A.E.A. official said, that "they could be spotted by someone using Google on the Internet."

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