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Forged Documents

by John Cole|  July 16, 20036:33 pm| 5 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

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A reader wrote in with a very interesting question:

“Why would anyone forge the documents?”

Why, indeed? Whowould forge them is just as good a question. That, to me, rather than whether or not the President and his staff relied on British intelligence for a line in the SOTU address, seems to be the reall issue.

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  1. 1.

    MommaBear

    July 16, 2003 at 6:56 pm

    Now France is claiming some other documents are forged in regard to some actions of their very own…….hrmmmmmmm!!

  2. 2.

    Barney Gumble

    July 16, 2003 at 7:45 pm

    Money?

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    July 16, 2003 at 8:05 pm

    Motive? Who paid for them? Why were they paying for them? What did the intend to accomplish? Etc.

    I am sure money was involved.

  4. 4.

    Andrew Lazarus

    July 16, 2003 at 8:36 pm

    Slate has a rundown; it looks like someone assumed (probably correctly) that a second-string intelligence agency would pay cash money for them.

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  1. Ipse Dixit says:
    July 18, 2003 at 11:45 am

    I’m Sorry I Missed This

    Chris Matthews, obviously channeling his inner Tim Russert (with a splash of Bill O’Reilly?), eviscerated Dennis Kucinich the other night….

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