Dangerous Curves

The Curveball Saga is what the LA Times calls its investigation into the Iraqi informant whose dodgy claims helped the Bush administration make the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

His German intelligence handlers say they were stunned when they heard Colin Powell's war argument at the UN. They'd warned the CIA that Curveball's information was "often vague, mostly secondhand and impossible to confirm."

Meanwhile, as Open Source Media is about to launch a blog carnival Monday on the controversy over pre-war intelligence, thought I'd link this Knight Ridder Washington report from mid-week that finds the administration isn't quite telling the truth when it criticizes its critics.