Plame case documents: Tracing the Iran-Contra/Niger connnection

The British Guardian gave us an important glimpse of the intrigue behind the Niger forgeries two years ago:
CIA and Pentagon split over uranium intrigue: Mistrusted arms dealer's tangled tale of nuclear smugglers and a hidden Baghdad laboratory sparks bitter spat by Julian Borger Guardian (UK) 10/17/03.

Keep the names Manucher Ghorbanifar and Michael Ledeen in mind as this story progresses.

When I first saw this article, I wrote:

John Poindexter, Bud McFarlane, Eliot Abrams, Michael Ledeen - all these names of key figures in the Iran-Contra affair keep popping up in connection with the Bush Administration's military adventures and intelligence programs.

Now here's another one. Manucher Ghorbanifar, one of the key scamsters that suckered Ollie North and his team of hot-shot amateur spy-diplomats back during the Reagan Administration, figures in yet another dispute between Rummy and the CIA ...

This can't be good. It just can't be good. We've been here before. Been there, done that. It didn't work out at all.

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