did I miss this?
seeing as what a rotten douchebucket Woolsey was/is, I can't believe I didn't see this earlier
oh well, just in case it hasn't come up since the fifteenth, here:
A former CIA director who advocated war against Saddam Hussein helped arrange the debriefing of an Iraqi defector who falsely claimed that Iraq had biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks.
R. James Woolsey's role as a go-between was detailed in a classified Defense Department report chronicling how the defector's assertion came to be included in the Bush administration's case for war even after the defector was determined to be a fabricator.
A senior U.S. official summarized portions of the report for Knight Ridder on condition of anonymity because it's top secret. The report said that on Feb. 11, 2002, Woolsey telephoned Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Linton Wells about the defector and told him how to contact the man, who'd been produced by an Iraqi exile group eager to oust Saddam. Wells said he passed the information to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Woolsey's previously undisclosed role in the case of Maj. Mohammad Harith casts new light on how prominent invasion advocates outside the government used their ties to senior officials in the Bush administration to help make the case for war. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9165361.htmthe story says there's no indication that Woolsey knew the info was unreliable. sound familiar? always giving the warmongers the benefit of the doubt, just as they do the Wilsons, the Clarkes, the ONeills, the Moores, right?
but, as Harry Shearer, who brought this up on his maximally excellent Le Show, there's no indication that he DID know if the info was bogus, either
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