Ok, this is VERY interesting. Read this article.

Officials Ask Why Iraq Details Surface Now

If you don't want to read the whole thing, I will pull out important passages.

"The CIA and members of Congress said they want to know how a presidential commission unearthed details on intelligence failures about Iraq's prewar weapons programs that previous investigations missed.

Of particular interest is information that emerged in last week's report about how doubts were handled regarding a leading source on Saddam Hussein's alleged mobile biological weapons labs - an Iraqi scientist who defected to Germany, code named 'Curveball.'"

Further, it has been revealed that this "curveball" was a drunk, and a known liar, and was disavowed by the German security apparatus.

The Curveball the Goofball
From this article, a direct quote:

"As the commission report notes, a Defense Department employee at the C.I.A. met with him and 'was concerned by Curveball's apparent 'hangover' during their meeting' and suspicious that Curveball spoke excellent English, even though the Foreign Service had told U.S. intelligence officials that Curveball did not speak English.

By early 2001, the C.I.A. was receiving messages from our Foreign Service, reporting that Curveball was 'out of control' and off the radar. A foreign intelligence service also warned the C.I.A. in April 2002 that it had 'doubts about Curveball's reliability' and that elements of the tippling tipster's behavior 'strike us as typical of individuals we would normally assess as fabricators.'"

Wow! And this is the person who we relied on for our intelligence on Iraq's weapons program?

"'It was an unhappy surprise to the [CIA] director that his first understanding of this issue was when he first read' the commission's report, Millerwise said Wednesday."

Now WAIT A MINUTE! Why are all the people supposedly in the known on intelligence issues, claiming that this is the first time they are hearing this? Something is really fishy here!

To prove to my detractors that I DO actually do something on this blog, yeah I am looking at you Rep Bud, I want to now take you back, way back. Back to nearly where I started this blog back in July of 2004.

Back to the Future (or the past rather)

DIRECT QUOTE from this very blog on July 13, 2004:

"t r u t h o u t - Fearing 'Powers That Be,' CIA Fell for 'Curveball'
This story is a scary inside look into just how our government gets its intelligence and then uses it as reason to launch a war against a country killing thousands of innocent civilians and over 900 of our fine American soldiers to date! I can't tell you how angry this makes me. I have completely lost all trust in our ability to lead the world when we use such shoddy intelligence to start such a costly war. If we do not kick Bush out of office in 2004 then this country truly is lost. I will make it my mission to get as many people to look at what is truly going on, not just what the mainstream media is showing you."

Here is an archived link to that story that I mentioned in July.

Fearing 'Powers That Be,' CIA Fell for 'Curveball'

Quote from the article:

"CIA Was Warned About Defector's Unreliability
By Bob Drogin
Los Angeles Times

Sunday 11 July 2004

The only American who met a now-discredited Iraqi defector codenamed "Curveball" repeatedly warned the CIA before the war that the Baghdad engineer appeared to be an alcoholic and that his dramatic claims that Saddam Hussein had built a secret fleet of mobile germ weapons factories were not reliable."

What is going on here?! How can no one be on top of this?! Hello???? Main-stream Media, where ARE YOU?!?!?!?!?! Call these people out. I don't believe this. Someone is not telling the truth if some little blogger like me can point to direct evidence that not only did the CIA know of this curveball, but surely members of Congress must have known about this, since it was written in the L.A. Times back in July. If inside intelligence info is written about in the L.A. Times, one would think that it would be quite common knowledge inside the "intelligence" community, and if not know already by our legislative (Congress) and executive (Prez) branches, then surely once it was in a high profile newspaper they would know.

So I ask everyone, what is the true story here? Why are people trying to muddy the waters on this very important point. I don't want to lose focus on the fact that still stands that APPARENTLY we relied on this UNRELIABLE source for our intelligence to take us into war and to now have over 1500 of our countrymen dead now.

Further on the CURRENT reactions to this NEW report.

"According to the report, CIA officials tried to tell the agency's top officials that Curveball was a suspected fabricator and may have been mentally unstable. The new information includes an alleged warning in a late-night phone call to the agency's former director, George Tenet.

Tenet and his top deputy have both released statements emphatically denying that they received such warnings. Tenet called it 'deeply disturbing' that the information didn't get to him.

Levin wants Tenet to testify under oath. 'I don't think the intelligence committee was given some of that detail on Curveball, but I think it should have been,' Levin said.

'Tenet said he doesn't remember,' [Senator] Levin said. 'Hey, these are life and death decisions. This is what we tell the world. That's not good enough. ... Where is the responsibility?'"

EXACTLY.

"The report said CIA officials contended that they tried to raise warnings about Curveball. One unnamed CIA division chief claims to have called Tenet at midnight the night before former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave his address to the United Nations, which provided the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq. The division chief recalled telling Tenet that foreign intelligence officials were concerned about Curveball's credibility."

Oh MY!

Note to Mainstream Media:

Please don't gloss this over, be what you are supposed to be, a 4th estate, hold their feet to the fire, get to the truth, save this democracy before we tumble all the way down the rabbit hole!