More on Those WMD's in Iraq

Senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Pete Hoekstra want to know why some staffers at the CIA continue to refuse to declassify relevant documents on the discovery of WMD's in Iraq, while lying to the public that the WMD's are "not new news."

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on the other hand, confirmed "What has been announced is accurate, that there have been hundreds of canisters or weapons of various types found that either currently have sarin in them or had sarin in them, and sarin is dangerous. And it's dangerous to our forces. . . . They are weapons of mass destruction. They are harmful to human beings. And they have been found. . . . And they are still being found and discovered."

For years now those who opposed the war have been insisting, among other things, that there were no WMD's in Iraq. This is clearly not true. Do some in the CIA have an interest in undermining the Bush Administration and preventing the truth from coming out? You'd think the opposite would be the case, that the CIA would be happy to prove that its often-maligned pre-war intelligence reports were correct, but Washington is a strange place. We've seen further proof in just the last few days that there are those in the intelligence commmunity who are deeply vested in wounding the administration and making it harder for our country to fight the war on terror, which is really rather scary, when you think about it.

The American public deserves to know the truth about the existence of WMD's in Iraq.

Somehow I don't imagine Bill Keller will be working hard to get that info of "public interest" into the headlines of The New York Times.