This on the front page of Yahoo news:
Entire story here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050406/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_curveball
Officials Ask Why Iraq Details Surface Now
White House - AP Cabinet & State
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - 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."
Porter Goss, who became CIA director last September, has instructed officials to determine what happened and why the details did not come to light earlier, said his spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise.
"It was an unhappy surprise to the director that his first understanding of this issue was when he first read" the commission's report, Millerwise said Wednesday.
OK, I was reading about the mendacity of this guy "Curveball" on this site and others months ago. I think I also read a lengthy article in the New Yorker.
Is anyone else here deeply disturbed by the blind igorance of our elected officials? (Or is that an oxymoronic statement?)