The Italian Job--Revisted II

According to The Hill, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is not interested in pursuing the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Niger Documents forgery. He prefers a "narrower perspective" as to how the discredited claims ended up in the Charlatan's State of the Union speech. I think that is a mistake because a pursuit of the circumstances surrounding the creation of the forgeries will reveal the culpability of sympathizers advancing the Vice President's case for war. Committee member Rep. Carolyn Maloney D-NY is correct to insist that committee investigators at least try to interview Rocco Martino, the Italian intelligence bag man who turned over the forgeries to a Berlusconi connected journalist who in turn gave them to U.S. officials. Italian intelligence sent the CIA a verbatim copy of the text in French in February, 2002. The actual documents did not come into CIA possession until October, 2003. However, they were not publicly debunked as forgeries until the IAEA received them one month prior to the invasion of Iraq. Stephan Hadley, then a deputy at the National Security Council under 'Condo' Rice, has refused to testify before the House Government Oversight committee. He took out language claiming the Niger connection at George Tenant's instruction from a presidential speech in 2002. Three months later the language was restored in the President's State of the Union address. Both Rice and Hadley have ignored committee subpoenas. Chairman Waxman's professed interest in why the discredited claim was resurrected will be answered ipso facto, once the creation of the forgeries is traced to it's source.