"The newly declassified information provides additional dramatic evidence that the [Bush] administration's prewar statements regarding links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda represents [sic] an incredible deception.".(Brief article)

"The newly declassified information provides additional dramatic evidence that the [Bush] administration's prewar statements regarding links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda represents [sic] an incredible deception." Thus quoth Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and Defender of Truth. The "newly declassified information" is a document from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) questioning the credibility of a captured al-Qaeda operative who claimed that Saddam's regime was training terrorists in the use of chemical and biological weapons. Levin is serving on a Senate committee charged with examining whether prewar statements of public officials were corroborated by intelligence. Leaving aside the unseemliness of his pronouncing on that question before the investigation is complete, we pause to recall a few simple realities. First, the DIA document does not change the fact ...