Josh Marshall in this
article from The Hill lays down a very good question:
Where did the fake Niger Documents come from?
The FBI investigation effectively shut off any information from the Senate Committee on Iraqi WMD and they said so in their report.
And quite fundamentally, the FBI hasn't even yet met with the man who turned over the documents in the first place??!!!? Despite the fact that he's visited Josh and spoken to him personally twice since 2002.
So what's up? Why hasn't the FBI talked with Mr. X, aka Rocco Martino, the former Italian spy who delivered the documents to Elisabetta Burba, a reporter for Italy's Panorama magazine, who turned them over to the U.S. embassy in Rome?
Rocco visited Josh Marshall here in the U.S. twice in 2004 and told him that he had gotten the documents from Italians at the Niger embassy in Rome. They had contacted him and told him they had "a gift" for him. Italian intelligence... Berlusconi... Bush... in bed... etc.
So again, why does Rocco insist that the FBI has not spoken with him? Why would the FBI not want to talk to the man who turned over the prime "evidence" at the center of the administration's claims about an Iraq nuclear program. The "evidence" that was forged. Why isn't this case going anywhere? I think Rome sounds nice. And isn't it more important than ever given ROVEGATE? Where do these leaks come from? Where do the lies emanate from?
Given the way investigations into 911 and the Iraq War have been hampered by the White House at every step, I think the answer is clear. BushCo are corporatists. They've made the mistake of applying CEO corporate rules/moral codes (ie NO moral codes) to politics and government. It's dangerous... and illegal. The evidence is there to be found... the evidence that would give us every reason to put George W. Bush in prison for the rest of his life.