Here’s an interesting article in the Washington Post detailing how the administration’s evidence for the Iraqi nuclear weapons programs was growing steadily weaker just as the its public confidence that such a program existed was growing steadily stronger. It’s a complicated story, neither cut and dry nor black and white. But you start to understand that time really was of the essence. Just not quite in the way we thought or were led to believe. And another issue I’m hearing a lot about in discussions but suprisingly little about in print: how many of those Iraqi defectors — where no small part of our intelligence came from — turned out to be totally full of it?
