[KevinTheOmnivore]

I hate to be the party pooper here, but I think a point-of-order is needed:

Did Niger sell the "yellow cake" to Iraq? No.

Furthermore, similar to what Max said, I don't know that I care enough to research this anymore, particularly since Hitchinson does in fact have a strange track record of writing just about any ridiculous claim in order to get his intended point across (ie. Chalabi).

Also, I honestly only read about 3/4 of the article, and I have one question. Does this mean "somebody" *COUGH*Rove/Novak!*COUGH* didn't intentionally "out" a CIA operative in order to get political payback.....?

And this little snip struck me:

"The Intelligence Identities Protection Act, notionally violated by this disclosure, is a ridiculous piece of legislation to begin with. It relies in practice on a high standard of proof, effectively requiring that the government demonstrate that someone knowingly intended to divulge the identity of an American secret agent operating under cover, with the intention of harming that agent. The United States managed to get through World War II and most of the Cold War without such an act on its books"

Well, I'm glad to see that a British man thinks very little of the laws enacted by Americans to protect their spies and agents, but wait, actually no, I don't give a shit anout what Christopher Hitchinson thinks. I hope he has written more similar diatribes about his own nation's intelligence gathering, which played an equally crucial role in misleading us (remember the "dossier" that had been plagarized from Amnesty International??)