From: "Rich Gauszka" 

They probably were too busy 'losing' White House emails

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:0n0c2357m46tva0ceomnrt1fp02kidvu55{at}4ax.com...
> http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3012688
>
> "It was a simple letter, just more than 100 words on two pieces of paper.
>
> But this singular document became one of the key pieces of evidence, the
> smoking gun, touted by the Bush administration to justify the invasion of
> Iraq. It's also the same piece of "evidence" that led to a perjury
> conviction for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide, I. Lewis
> Libby.
>
> The July 2000 letter, which was obtained from Italian intelligence
> services, appeared to be an official correspondence from the Niger
> government to the president of Iraq, confirming a deal to sell 500 tons of
> pure uranium to Iraq annually.
>
> But if the CIA had done a simple Internet search on some of the terms used
> in the letter, the agency would have quickly learned that it was a
> forgery.
>
> Instead, the letter was later cited by President Bush in his 2003 State of
> the Union address as proof that Saddam Hussein was determined to build
> nuclear weapons, justifying a preemptive invasion of the country. "

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