NigerGate In A Nutshell

After all the hand-wringing analysis and debate, finally someone puts the simple truth down in writing:

The Bush administration knowingly and intentionally recruited Berlusconi's help to generate fraudulent intelligence in Italy about Iraq's nuclear activities that could be laundered through British intelligence, thereby rendering it untraceable and unexaminable - and legitimized by MI6. Then it was stovepiped to the White House national security apparatus, and cynically purveyed to the American public by Bush and his foreign policy team as high quality, actionable intelligence justifying pre-emptive attack on Iraq.

Unfortunately, it's not the New York Times or Washington Post, just Peter Lee at The Smirking Chimp. Would that the press had the balls to publish such plain truths. Do you think Bush, Cheney and Berlusconi would dare take them to court for it, and risk the exposure of a public trial?