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The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq (Hardcover)
by Peter Eisner (Author), Knut Royce (Author)
Key Phrases: uranium intelligence, uranium shopping, seeking uranium, United States, White House, Saddam Hussein (more...)
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The so-called Italian letter is a package of allegedly forged documents that seem to be based on articles stolen from the Nigerian embassy in Rome in 2001.  The document was nonetheless adopted by the Bush administration as a basis for going to war with Iraq, even though the letter has been widely dismissed by a variety of key players in the U.S. Intelligence Community years before President Bush cited it in his 2003 State of the Union speech.



Eiser, a Washington Post editor, and Royce, a legendary investigative reporter in Washington, have produced a work that takes readers from Italy, to Niger, to Iraq, and into the Washington offices of the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and inside the White House itself, to show that the document was a forgery.  They suggest that this was not a case of finding out too late that certain intelligence information was faulty, but rather that the Bush administration used information it knew to be false to convince the Congress and the American public that Saddam Hussein was seeking materials to make a nuclear bomb.  While news accounts and several books have exposed bits and pieces of this effort, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive, detailed account, relying on sources within the American Intelligence Community along with documents and human sources from all over the world, many of them exposed for the first time.



Key players in a true-life drama that continues to unfold including Scooter Libby, Joseph Wilson, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, and even George W. Bush, occupy this stage with such lesser known figures as Italian journalist Elisabetta Burba and an intelligence freelancer named Rocca Martino.



About the Author
PETER EISNER is deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post. The Post’s coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which he coordinated, won an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is also author of The Freedom Line, a winner of the 2004 Christopher Award. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in three different decades before joining the Center for Public Integrity as a senior fellow. He has won numerous journalism awards and was named by the Washingtonian as one of the two best investigative print reporters in the nation’s capital. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Product Details
  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books (April 3, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594865736
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594865732
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uranium intelligence, uranium shopping, seeking uranium, uranium deal, foreign government service, uranium story, procure uranium, uranium sale, uranium claim, uranium purchases, banned weapons, prewar intelligence, phony documents, illicit weapons, national intelligence officer, bogus documents, verbatim text, aluminum tubes
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, White House, Saddam Hussein, Intelligence Community, State of the Union, Security Council, State Department, United Nations, Rocco Martino, Special Plans, Middle East, President Bush, New York Times, Colin Powell, Elisabetta Burba, Vice President Cheney, Joseph Wilson, North Korea, Washington Post, Defense Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, Carl Ford, George Walker Bush, National Intelligence Estimate, Alan Foley
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