There’s a story making the rounds, courtesy of Salon, that essentially says George Tenet told the President there were no WMDs in Iraq. As you can imagine, people are discussing it. I didn’t bring it up yesterday because my head already hurt and Kleinheider already covered it ably. But I suppose it does warrant discussion.
This makes me extremely angry, so angry I actually hope it is not true. I knew they exaggerated and withheld contradictory data and hyped weak evidence — and all of that was bad enough. But I always assumed a kind of warped good faith - -that they were actually convinced and just fell into the all too human trap of confirmation bias. Bad enough in the leaders of the country, and something that they should have been hounded out of office for a long time ago.
Me, frankly, I’ve heard so many versions of who-knew-what-when that I’ve ceased to try keeping track. Most of it is seems to be hearsay on both sides.