Klinsmann played Donovan as a striker as a way of setting him up to fail . That much is obvious . Donovan is a creator , not a scorer . <| sep |> I said The yellow cake story was a simple fabricationLet ' s look into it eh ? The suggestion of a plot by CIA officers is countered by an explosive series of articles in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica . Investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d ' Avanzo report that Nicol Pollari , chief of Italy ' s military intelligence service , SISMI , brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House after his insistent overtures had been rejected by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2001 and 2002 . SISMI had reported to the CIA on 15 October 2001 , that Iraq had sought yellowcake in Niger , a report it also plied on British intelligence , creating an echo that the Niger forgeries themselves purported to amplify before they were exposed as a hoax . it ' s hard to say where these documents come from but the consensus seems to be that they were manufactured by intelligence operatives .