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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

What happened to these two stories?

A week ago(the Sunday of Thanksgiving week), the LATimes produced a major story on 'Curveball', the INC provided intel source who was the source for significant amounts of the bad intel cited by the Bush administration in the runup to the Iraq war, like the mobile bioweapons labs. That article showed fairly clearly that the Bush administration actively ignored evidence regarding Curveball that was counter to their effort to sell the war.

The Friday before that, ABCNews published a major piece, sourced from the CIA, that outlined exactly how they wanted "harsh interrogation tactics" described. But a key element in that story was the fact that al Libbi, the source for the claim of cooperation of Iraq and Al Qaeda, only gave that false information after he was waterboarded and left to stand naked in a cold cell and doused with ice water.

I think these were major stories, with big revelations, which have should have a major impact on the way we view the Bush administration's selling of the Iraq war. But I have not seen anything else published reporting on either one of these stories.

Does releasing a story Thanksgiving week mean that there is to be no further reporting on it? Did I miss that statement of policy?

(By the way, the statement that Feith was going to be investigated by the IG was also released that Friday. Heard about that again?)

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