Slam Dunk

New information in James Risen's book makes clear the President was misleading us again when he pretended (and continues to pretend) there was no dissent on the WMD intelligence prior to the beginning of the war-

AP: Book: CIA Ignored Info Iraq Had No WMD

A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.

Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade.

New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction...

"I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence."
-President George W. Bush (July 14, 2003)