Intel Probe: The Yellowcake Mystery

[lovuian]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9938998/site/newsweek/
snip...

But a senior bureau official, requesting anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity, told NEWSWEEK the FBI never interviewed Rocco Martino, the Italian businessman who provided the documents to SISMI. Because there was no apparent violation of U.S. law, the bureau couldn't compel him to talk—even though he twice visited the United States last year to be interviewed by CBS's "60 Minutes." (The story never aired.) Last week Martino talked again, telling an Italian newspaper he played "a double, triple game"—working as a freelance agent for SISMI and French intelligence. Martino said he was instructed by a SISMI agent to pick up the docs from a woman at the Niger Embassy in Rome. "I was simply the deliveryman," he said, adding he had no idea the papers were fraudulent. Italian intel chief Gen. Nicola Pollari denied that his agency forged the documents, but claimed SISMI warned the United States the documents were fraudulent after Bush mentioned Saddam's interest in buying uranium from Africa in his January 2003 State of the Union Message.

snip...
But Roberts says only senators—not staffers—should draft final conclusions about whether the public statements were hyped, a procedure that infuriates Dems. Critics say Roberts has also stymied an inquiry into whether Pentagon units "cherry-picked" intel reports on Saddam. Roberts turned that probe over to the Pentagon's inspector general; a spokesman for the Pentagon IG declined to comment.

[Pirate Smile]

1. Here is a thread on this issue from yesterday. You might find it

interesting.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5286811

[goforit]

3. It looks like the FBI ain't doing their job and is covering up something.

[goforit]

2. Hmmm.....I wonder if this mysterious woman was Barbara Olsen.

"Martino said he was instructed by a SISMI agent to pick up the docs from a woman at the Niger Embassy in Rome."

She was last seen hiding out in Italy and you know these Bushthugs
like a close knit family doing their dirty work.