It took almost two and a half years, but the Washington Post's Walter Pincus finally concedes many things he reported on June 12, 2003 attributed to  the then anonymously sourced Joseph A . Wilson IV are lies.  Pincus and Dana Milbank  today admit Wilson 's tale to Pincus that the intelligence about the Niger uranium was based on forged documents because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong"  was debunked by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which examined pre—Iraq war intelligence, and reported that Wilson "had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports." Wilson had to admit he had misspoken." (The Telegraph reports today that Russo Martino has conceded that he prepared these documents for French intelligence to undermine British and U.S. war efforts.) They are deceitful in saying "that inaccuracy was not central to Wilson's claims about Niger."  It was central to his biggest flim flam, that...(Read Full Post)