Another Dot in the Forged Niger Docs

Over at Raw Story, there's another connection from the original forged Niger Yellowcake documents into the White House. Keep in mind, of course, that these are simply interesting events in a longer chain that may or may not add up to active participation of White House personnel in creation of these documents in order to build the case for war. And that is quite criminal. Here's an excerpt:

In an explosive series of articles appearing this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo reveal how Niccolo Pollari, chief of Italy's military intelligence service, known as SISMI, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002.

Today's exclusive report in La Repubblica reveals that Pollari met secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then–Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Their secret meeting came at a critical moment in the White House campaign to convince Congress and the American public that war in Iraq was necessary to prevent Saddam Hussein from developing nuclear weapons.

The La Repubblica article quotes a Bush administration official saying, "I can confirm that on September 9, 2002, general Nicolo Pollari met Stephen Hadley."

Who is Stephen Hadley? According to the White House website, he is the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He also happens to be one of the two people whom Chimpie sent out to meet with Cindy Sheehan when she was camped outside the Crawford "ranch."

Curioser and curioser.