Forging on Despite Better Intel

The Christian Science Monitor has a detailed report on the chain of events that led to the CIA leak investigation. "From Yellowcake to Plamegate" says it didn't take the CIA long to determine the forged documents behind President Bush's infamous "16 words" were fake:

"The ones dealing with a purported uranium deal between Niger and Saddam Hussein's Iraq bore a validation stamp that seemed a bit funky, for one thing. And that companion paper! It outlined some kind of bizarre military campaign against world powers. Iraq and Iran were supposedly in it together - preposterous, given their enmity - and the whole thing was being run out of the Nigerien Embassy in Rome." -- Christian Science Monitor

The CIA discounted the documents as forgeries, but President Bush continued to rely on them in his claims that Iraq was building a nuke program. (CSM)