That is the worst most incompetent piece of journalism I have ever read. If that is the kind of writting you get your information from, well that says it all.
I'll stick with mine. MINE BLOWS YOURS AWAY, NO CONTEST.
http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060606fege02
"But the Niger claim, unlike other allegations, can't be dismissed as an innocent error or blamed on ambiguous data. "This wasn't an accident," says Milt Bearden, a 30-year C.I.A. veteran who was a station chief in Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, and Germany, and the head of the Soviet-East European division. "This wasn't 15 monkeys in a room with typewriters."
"Some of them refer to the Niger documents as "a disinformation operation," others as "black propaganda," "black ops," or "a classic psy-ops [psychological-operations] campaign." But whatever term they use, at least nine of these officials believe that the Niger documents were part of a covert operation to deliberately mislead the American public.
The officials are;
Milt Bearden, a 30-year C.I.A. veteran who was a station chief in Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, and Germany, and the head of the Soviet-East European division
Colonel W. Patrick Lang, who served as the D.I.A.'s defense intelligence officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and terrorism
Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Melvin Goodman, a former division chief and senior analyst at the C.I.A. and the State Department
Ray McGovern, a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years; Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia division in 2002 and 2003
Larry C. Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who was deputy director of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993
former C.I.A. official Philip Giraldi
Vincent Cannistraro, the former chief of operations of the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorism Center."