Italian Spy Master Supplied Bush with Fake WMD Evidence

Josh Marshall has been doing some spectacular reporting on this for a while now but the Times has finally figured out that this is an important story.

ROME, Nov. 3 - Italy's spymaster identified an Italian occasional spy named Rocco Martino on Thursday as the disseminator of forged documents that described efforts by Iraq to buy uranium ore from Niger for a nuclear weapons program, three lawmakers said Thursday.

The spymaster, Gen. Nicol Pollari, director of the Italian military intelligence agency known as Sismi, disclosed that Mr. Martino was the source of the forged documents in closed-door testimony to a parliamentary committee that oversees secret services, the lawmakers said.

How creepy is this? How does this happen? Is this something that is cooked up at some Bilderberg retreat or what?