Josh is talking about the Joe Wilson Niger investigation, and that there are “forgeries” there (known forgeries) that have dropped off the radar of the mainstream media. After watching Uncovered: The Truth About the War in Iraq on Saturday, I picke dup Wilson’s book again. The hubub about the CBS documents, compared to the “basically forgotten” status of the “Niger Uranium Purchas” forgeries is a bit disturbing, and here’s why:

The CBS forgeries were simply a buttress for a case that all other evidence seems to support the main thrust of the documents. The Niger docs were used as the main source for a fabricated , non-existent situation that the Bush campaign stubbornly refused to discard, and Rice tells us that they “forgot” to take it out. In this case, the Niger documents were clearly designed to create a false “red flag” that the Bush acampign could use to get support for their cause. The relative ease with which they accomplished a “burying” of this story is scary. Another stark failure of that so-called “liberal media”. I would call them money-driven, spineless media.

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 19, 2004 – September 25, 2004 Archives

…the investigation into just who forged the notorious Niger-uranium documents that purported to show that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger — the underlying issue that led to the Plame investigation in the first place.
It’s even been suggested in the press that the two investigations might have been consolidated into one.
The truth, though, the dirty little secret, is that there’s never been any real investigation into where those documents came from.