Reply #37: The reason that people are

[H2O Man]

hoping to consolidate the two investigations is, of course, because there has been no effort to find out who forged the Niger yellow cake uranium documents. Even though there is good reason to suspect who was behind their creation -- and why -- there has been no serious effort made to determine their origin. The FBI has done some serious investigation into the neocon spy scandal, but some of the political appointees at "the top" have done their best to stop them from bringing indictments. Clearly, just as in Plame, some officials need to recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest. And that can perhaps best be remedied with a special prosecutor. Hence the call to consolidate the investigations.

What is of great interest is the fact that the call for this consolidation recognizes that the group involved in the neocon scandal, (partiularly the Israeli front group) forged the documents.