With revelations about Dick Cheney's mystery CIA assassination squad and outrage by congressional Democrats over being kept in the dark, I got to wondering about a couple of other suspected CIA operations and just how informed Congress was about those.
Remember the grand-daddy of Iraq war lies -- the infamous Niger Uranium Forgeries? Or how about the lesser-know Saddam-al Qaeda linkage document, also demonstrated to be a fake? In each case, of course, these were documents that the Bush Administration used to justify the invasion of Iraq. And there is also very reliable reporting suggesting that both of these forgeries were actually created by the CIA at the behest Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.
Perhaps the congressional intelligence committees could use the occasion of the assassination-squad investigation to finally find out the truth about the CIA's role in carrying out Bush's political objectives.
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