re: Niger post
Sorry, I should have linked it. Post was here. The evidence of Iraq's interest in Niger uranium is not courtroom-solid, but certainly not the complete load of crap that Wilson and others painted it as. Especially since no reasonable person can think of anything else Iraq would want from Niger.
I really expected it to get more of a response, but have discovered here that once a "flap" is over, not many people are really interested in further data. I noticed that the media pretty much ignored it, too.