YELLOWCAKE UPDATE….Yesterday I wrote a post about a story in Capitol Hill Blue in which a “CIA advisor” named Terrance J. Wilkinson claimed that he was present at White House briefings where George Bush was told that the Niger uranium story was bogus.

“I’m not sure how seriously to take this,” I wrote, and it turns out that the answer is, “Not at all.” Writing in Capitol Hill Blue today, publisher Doug Thompson says, “I’ve been had big time.” Wilkinson is a fake and the briefings never took place.

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