The Wolf That Cried "Media Bias!"

Treason in Defense of Slavery Yankee and Captain Ed edition. (See also Mahablog.)

This reminds me of one of my favorite techniques of warblogger hackery–use conflicts between the administration and intelligence agencies to exculpate the President over his lies about WMD, (poor Bush, duped by George “Slam Dunk” Tenet) while leaving out the fact that the source of the conflict was that the administration thought that intelligence agencies were underestimating Iraq’s capacity. (A little more creative than the “no, really, they’re still there! And anyway, this war wasn’t about WMDs, it was about the enforcement of UN resolutions!!!!!!!” gambit, anyway…)

…or, as Ezra puts it:

Some politicized desk jockey in DC was heeded over nine experts each with a decade plus of experience in a relevant area. He was listened to because his judgments squared with that of “Curveball,” the Iraqi defector who claimed to be a chemical weapons engineer, turned out to be a liar, and appears to have singlehandedly concocted around 50% of our case for war. Impressive work, considering his code name, basically, means betrayal. How cunningly Shakespearian of him.