Out of My Mind

So when is the administration gonna come clean about the bogosity of the Nigerian yellowcake claim? (Yes, the question's rhetorical.) Even the Wall Street Journal -- the modern Pravda -- has signed off on it with a big page 1 story.

The Italian Job: How Fake Iraq Memos Tripped Up Ex-Spy

Rocco Martino Goes Silent As FBI Probes the Origin Of 'Yellowcake' Scandal

By JAY SOLOMON and GABRIEL KAHN

February 22, 2006; Page A1

For much of the past decade, Rocco Martino floated in obscurity on the margins of the global spy game. The silver-haired Italian worked briefly for his country's military-intelligence service, was kicked out but continued to freelance with SISMI, as it is known. He scraped together a living selling intelligence tips under an ever-shifting list of aliases to other agencies or to journalists.

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