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Subject:	[Spy News] Fitzgerald Expanded Scope of Inquiry in 2004 to Probe Niger Forgeries

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2005/102905Leopold.shtml
COMMENTARY:
Fitzgerald Expanded Scope of Inquiry in 2004 to Probe Niger Forgeries
by Jason Leopold

This is the first time
there is confirmation
that the investigation
had expanded to investigate
the Niger forgeries.

The special prosecutor investigating the outing of a covert CIA agent
expanded his probe last year to include intelligence information used by the
Bush administration claiming that Iraq tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium
from Niger.

According to a court filing posted on his website, Patrick Fitzgerald, the
special prosecutor investigating who leaked the name of undercover CIA agent
to reporters, was interested in questioning New York Times reporter Judith
Miller about the CIA agent or whether she discussed Iraq's alleged efforts
to purchase uranium from Niger.

"On August 12 and August 20, 2004, grand jury subpoenas were issued to
reporter Judith Miller and her employer, The New York Times, seeking
documents and testimony related to ?conversations between Miller and a
specified government official occurring between on or about July 6, 2003 and
on or about July 13, 2003, concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred
to by name or by description) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain
uranium,? the filing made by Fitzgerald last year states.

While many public officials and the media have long believed that Fitzgerald
was not only looking into the identity of administration officials who
leaked Plame's name to reporters, this is the first time there is
confirmation that the investigation had expanded to investigate the Niger
forgeries.

Sources close to the case said Fitzgerald will empanel a new grand jury and
pursue broader conspiracy charges against senior officials inside the Bush
administration, as well as other people who worked at the State Department
and the National Security Council.

NATO sources told United Press International on Monday, Oct. 24 that
Fitzgerald's team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on
the forgeries from the Italian government.

According to the report, "Fitzgerald's team has been given the full and as
yet unpublished report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the affair,
which started when an Italian journalist obtained documents that appeared to
show officials of the government of Niger helping to supply the Iraqi regime
of Saddam Hussein with Yellowcake uranium.?

This claim, which made its way into President Bush's State of the Union
address in January, 2003, was based on falsified documents from Niger and
was later withdrawn by the White House.


© 2005 Jason Leopold. Jason Leopold is the author of the memoir News Junkie,
to be released in the spring of 2006 by Process/Feral House Books. Visit
Leopold's website at jasonleopold.com for updates. This article is published
in the Baltimore Chronicle with permission of the author.





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