Smoking gun memo: Bush administration knew the Iraq Intelligence leading up to war was false!

NEW YORK
Ever since the Democrats briefly closed the U.S. Senate from view earlier this week, to protest alleged Republican foot-dragging in probing Bush administration pre-war manipulation of intelligence, the press has been asking: So what new evidence do the Democrats have in this matter?

Tomorrow, in its print edition, The New York Times starts to answer the question, with reporter Douglas Jehl disclosing the contents of a newly declassified memo apparently passed to him by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

It shows that an al-Qaeda official held by the Americans was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the basis for its claims that Iraq trained al-Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to this Defense Intelligence Agency document from February 2002.

Okay now we are starting to get somewhere! I am dumbfounded that this administration really believed that they could keep this stuff under wraps. Well the cat is certainly out of the bag now.

George will finally get his wish of getting Plame case off of the front pages. I suspect that this new information will quickly take front and center.