SEYMOUR M. HERSH
{Cont'd} What happened instead, he said,....
Mon Oct 20 05:09:56 2003
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

What happened instead, he said, “was a real abdication of responsibility by Condi.”

Vice-President Cheney remains unabashed about the Administration’s reliance on the Niger documents, despite the revelation of their forgery. In a September interview on “Meet the Press,” Cheney claimed that the British dossier’s charge that “Saddam was, in fact, trying to acquire uranium in Africa” had been “revalidated.” Cheney went on, “So there may be a difference of opinion there. I don’t know what the truth is on the ground. . . . I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him.”

The Vice-President also defended the way in which he had involved himself in intelligence matters: “This is a very important area. It’s one that the President has asked me to work on. . . . In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That’s my job.”

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NOC, NOC. Who's There? A Special Kind of Agent
The unmasking of Valerie Plame sheds light on the shadowy world of NOCs, spies with nonofficial cover
By MICHAEL DUFFY AND TIMOTHY J. BURGER
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031027-524486,00.html
SEE:
LEAK-GATE
HTTP://WWW.APFN.ORG/APFN/LEAKGATE.HTM

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