Letters to the Editor
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The Forged Niger Documents
Among the many investigations into this administration that should be conducted is one regarding the origin and "discovery" of the forged Niger yellowcake documents.
While Michael Ledeen denies that he had any connection to the forged documents, he does not dispute that he wrote for Panorama and worked with the publication's Editor-in-Chief, Carlo Rossella. Panorama is the Italian magazine whose reporters first "uncovered" the forged documents.
Ledeen also had connections to SISMI, the Italian equivalent of the CIA, as did two other individuals linked to the documents, Rocco Martin and Francesco Pazienza.
Coincidences? Perhaps. But, considering that the forged documents provided the Bush Administration and the neocons with justification for the War in Iraq (the famous "16 words" in Bush's SOTU address in 2003), Ledeen's connections to SISMI and Panorama, and a purported meeting in Rome in December, 2001 with Ledeen, Nicolo Pollari, head of the SISMI, Antonio Martino, Italy’s Minister of Defense, Larry Franklin, already noted in Glenn's article, and Harold Rhode, a member of the Office of Special Plans, I believe that further investigation is warranted.