Oh, that email.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Intelligence failures, war in Iraq - Brief Article

"No analytical judgments were changed in response to political pressure," concludes the Bush commission's 601-page report on intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq. Michael Isikoff of Newsweek was curious: Had the commission considered the email sent Feb. 4, 2003, by a senior CIA official that rebuked underlings who questioned the now totally discredited intelligence provided by the source called Curve Ball? "What email?" replied Lawrence Silberman, the commission's co-chairman. "I'm mystified." Later, after Isikoff had provided the commission with a copy of the email, a...