French secret service 'kept CIA in the dark over Iraq and uranium'

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 07/14/03 | Michael Smith

[NeoCaveman]

OR the knowledge that the information might reach someone who is compromised in the US...like a Senator or Representative that sits on one of the Congressional intelligence committees.

Not Senator Leaky Leahy? He wouldn't do that.

Oh yes he would.

[rintense]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least that the French knew all about this Iraq-Africa connection, mainly because they were helping the Iraqis get the needed components. Could this be just one more piece of info that will shut the Dems up?

[AntiGuv]

Italian intelligence, the reported source of the forged documents, has asserted that they got them from the French.

If so, then why would the French permit the Italians to share the intelligence with the British, but permit neither to share the intelligence with the Americans?

[aculeus]

Why is Bush/Tenet/everyone else so defensive about this matter?

Tony Blair is right ... sticking to his guns.

[Mo1]

Folks, there really is a Watergate style scandal coming. But it is not going to be about the administration. It is going to be about the Democrats.

Could it really happen?

[A. Pole]

The French secret service is believed to have refused to allow MI6 to give the Americans "credible" intelligence showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium ore from Niger, US intelligence sources said yesterday.

Blame the French, cool.

[NeoCaveman]

If so, then why would the French permit the Italians to share the intelligence with the British, but permit neither to share the intelligence with the Americans?

Given the behavior of the Chriac regime in France, over the last year or so, that should be self-evident.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Irish Eyes]

I hope that Blairs visit next week will clear up some of this.

[Mo1]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least that the French knew all about this Iraq-Africa connection, mainly because they were helping the Iraqis get the needed components. Could this be just one more piece of info that will shut the Dems up?

France is one of interests that oversee the 2 mines in Nigar.

Germany, Japan and Spain are the others

[AnAmericanMother]

"Sacre bleu! I rezemble zat remark!"

[cwb]

Yeah...it wouldn't be a surprise at all. Especially with the recent revelations that Carter had met with the Soviets to discuss ways of defeating Reagan in both 1980 and 1984. The democrats have a habit of not only working with this country's enemies, but treating Republicans as the enemy. I don't know what has happened to this party.

[Mo1]

Yeah...it wouldn't be a surprise at all. Especially with the recent revelations that Carter had met with the Soviets to discuss ways of defeating Reagan in both 1980 and 1984

Really???

Dang, I miss all the news .. do you have a link that I can save for reference?

[maestro]

French secret service 'kept CIA in the dark over Iraq and uranium'

Your# 8.......Folks, there really is a Watergate style scandal coming. But it is not going to be about the administration. It is going to be about the Democrats.

'WMD'......too!!

ROTFLOL

(Can't 'find' them "YET",......too many 'trails' have to be covered/sanitized first!!)

Good things take time........

:-)

[Jim Robinson]

France and Germany have allied with Iraq vs America and Britain. The Democrats have formally aligned themselves with the French/German/Iraqi axis against America. How much more anti-American can you get?

[maestro]

You bet!

Your# 35.....says it all!!

bttt

[DPB101]

The Washington Post reported several months ago that the forged Niger documents entered the intelligence communist from French intelligence.

Worthy of note that the documents were exposed as fake almost immediately after being made public.

[Miss Marple]

The source was the former Secretary of State under President Bush, Lawrence Eagleburger, on Hannity and Colmes, I believe. I heard it myself.

[NeoCaveman]

Dang, I miss all the news .. do you have a link that I can save for reference?

Carter's treachery, from the National Review.

Detailed in the book Reagan's War.

Too bad Ann Coulter didn't cover this in her book "Treason"

[Jim Robinson]

And the anti-Republican/anti-Bush paleocon/paleolibertarian/buchananite/rockwellian/anarchist movement has combined with the Democrat/French/German/Iraq pro-terror axis.