US - Congress to probe UK's claims on Iraq uranium

Correction, the Democrats are going to waste tax payers dollars and waste valuable resources that could be used to fight terrorism, in an attack on Bush. The Telegraph is starting to sound like the BBC.

British intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to buy uranium ore from Niger will be at the centre of new American investigations into the Iraq war by the newly elected Democrat-run Congress.

The inquiries will re-open uncomfortable questions for Tony Blair about the information, passed by Britain to Washington. It formed part of President George W. Bush's case to Congress for going to war — despite a key source for the intelligence having since been discredited.

But as the Telegraph relate later in the their report:

"But it emerged that the documents purportedly proving the Iraqi interest had been faked by a Nigerois diplomat in Italy. George Tenet, the then CIA director, took responsibility for its inclusion in Mr Bush's address, but Britain has insisted that it had alternative sources for the information and the Butler Commission inquiry called the claims "well founded"."

Strangely, the Telegraph leave out the fact that a bipartisan committee has already investigated the Niger-Iraq-Uranium connections and found that Joe Wilson's trip bolstered the claims.

Then there's this reported by the BBC no less.

Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" were also removed. [...]

Bryan Wilkes said much of the material was "in powdered form, which is easily dispersed".