Here's that shocker report I lost - or the next step in the way.
Senator Asks FBI to Investigate Fake Iraq Document
The senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the FBI on Friday to investigate fake documents the United States used as evidence to the United Nations of alleged Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from Niger.
"As you know, the International Atomic Energy Agency has recently determined that some of the intelligence documents provided to it by the United States are forgeries," Sen. John Rockefeller said in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller.
"These documents were provided to the IAEA as evidence of Iraqi efforts to procure uranium from the Republic of Niger. I am writing to request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigate this matter," the West Virginia senator said.
The documents were among intelligence U.S. officials used in seeking U.N. Security Council support for their assertion that Iraq is hiding biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq denies having such weapons programs.
President Bush alluded to the evidence in his State of the Union address, saying Britain had learned Iraq had sought "significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
FORGERIES
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei undermined the U.S. position on March 7 by telling the U.N. Security Council the documents on the Iraq-Niger-uranium connection were forgeries.
U.S. officials say it was not known who forged the papers, but they were given to the United States and Britain by a third country which they would not identify.
Rockefeller expressed concern that the forgeries "may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq."
The implication of Senator Rockefeller's letter is that the intelligence community forged these documents to somehow bolster the case against Iraq....
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