September 17, 2006

How Bad?

Stephen Hayes, with about 5000 words on evidence the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ignored in coming to their conclusions and compiling their report: "How Bad Is The Senate Intelligence Report? "

Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz both said in their post-arrest debriefings that Iraq hadn't supported Islamic terror. That was apparently good enough for the Committee.

Incredible.

UPDATE 9/18: As far as I know, Christopher Hitchens was the first journalist to report that it was Wissam al-Zahawie, the former head of Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear weapons program, who was the Saddam regime's envoy to Niger in 1998. Hitchens reprises some of that reporting this week for The Weekly Standard, adding this evidence to the long list of items ignored or glossed over by the SSCI in their recent report.

Posted by dan at September 17, 2006 11:16 PM