Can Cheney hear the drumbeat in the jungle?

the more that comes out, the more that's gonna come out, i'm convinced... boring myself again, ad nauseam, i'll repeat for the umpteenth time, when the floodgates finally open wide, we will ALL be blown away...

A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Appearing on MSNBC's Tucker Carlson show, Ray McGovern who served in the CIA for twenty-seven years, said, "the [forged] memo leads right back to the doorstep of the Vice President of the United States."

According to McGovern, former CIA Director George Tenet told his "coterie of malleable managers" at the CIA to create a National Intelligence Estimate "to the terms of reference of Dick Cheney's speech of August 26, 2002, where Dick Cheney said for the first time Saddam Hussein could have a nuclear weapon in a year, he's got all kinds of chemical, he's got all kinds of biological weapons."

McGovern, who at one time chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief, also claimed to have evidence that the memo leads back to Cheney but he would say what it was, except that the names of the people involved were "in the public domain."

insofar as i can tell, ray mcgovern has proved himself to be a fairly cool, reliable source... i am reasonably certain he would not go on a national cable news channel on a show with high public visibility and make a claim as serious as this if he didn't have the proof to back it up... he is all but accusing cheney of conspiracy and forgery, not insubstantial allegations... you can bet mcgovern's hand will be called but not until a massive attack and spin campaign has been waged...

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