House of cards

Also in Salon, Michael Scherer has a good article on the questions Fitzgerald's investigation might crack open. These are questions Knight-Ridder followed all along. Scherer suggests four in particular that should get public play from the investigation:

Did the vice president's office put pressure on intelligence analysts in the run-up to war?

Did pressure from the vice president's office have anything to do with the more aggressive views expressed in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) or the accompanying "white paper" about Iraq's weapons threat?

Who forged the Niger documents that purported to show a sales agreement for Uranium with Iraq?

What role did the vice president's office and the Pentagon play in gathering and disseminating intelligence from sources outside the normal intelligence process?